Name the Principal of M.A.O. College, Aligarh, who encouraged Muslim Communalism in the last decades of the 19th Century?
Detailed Explanation:
Theodore Beck served as Principal of M.A.O. College, Aligarh from 1883 onwards and actively promoted Muslim separatism in the late 19th century.
He discouraged Muslims from joining the Indian National Congress and advocated maintaining a separate political identity loyal to the British, strengthening the Aligarh school's communal politics.
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