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Aligarh

American  
[ah-lee-guhr, al-uh-gahr] / ˈɑ liˌgʌr, ˈæl əˌgɑr /

noun

  1. a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.


Aligarh British  
/ ˌɑːlɪˈɡɜː, ˌælɪ- /

noun

  1. a city in N India, in W Uttar Pradesh, with a famous Muslim university (1920). Pop: 667 732 (2001)

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"Many conventional quantum dots are toxic, because they're derived from heavy metals," explains Md Palashuddin Sk, an assistant professor of chemistry at Aligarh Muslim University in India.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Accounts from Banu's surviving family members suggest that her strength, combined with the conservative attitudes of the time, made her leave her hometown of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh for Aligarh.

From BBC • May 25, 2023

Sewa has also showed off its oxygen concentrator donations to Aligarh Muslim University, as well as mass equipment supplies throughout India, in both its public communications and in an email sent to me.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2021

In this charged atmosphere, pastors and priests in Aligarh assiduously avoid the C-word.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2017

Fifty of Hodson's Horse, under a European officer, and a sufficient number of Infantry to make the detachment we had left there up to 200, were at once despatched to Aligarh.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh