The Calcutta Madrasa: Warren Hastings and Muslim Education in Bengal
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In 1780, just a decade after the Great Bengal Famine and while the East India Company was consolidating its rule, Governor-General Warren Hastings founded the Calcutta Madrasa — the first state-supported Islamic college in British India. Why would a Christian trading company fund Muslim religious education? This episode explores the political calculations behind Hastings' decision: the need to train Company officials in Islamic law, the desire to pacify Bengal's Muslim elite after Plassey and Buxar, and the intellectual climate of the late 18th century. We look at the madrasa's founding documents, its early curriculum of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic jurisprudence, and the complex legacy of an institution that survives today as Aliah University. Lucas and Luna also discuss the madrasa's role in the Orientalist-Anglicist debate, and how a small school in Calcutta shaped generations of Muslim scholars and reformers in Bengal.
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