Sibal : the genesis of the AMU is based on this movement within the minority community that apart from these 5-6 universities there must a university for ourselves...and imagine Sir Syed, I'm talking of 1870 the patience that the man had that we should not be looking at Muslim education alone we should be looking at secular scientific education, and the kind the subjects taught and the same movement was in the Hindu community, at the same time the Banaras Hindu University also came into being.