On February 22, 1874 a few men in Mumbai created history. On that day at the house of Badruddin Tayabji, first Indian judge of the Bombay High Court and third president of Indian National Congress, his elder brother solicitor Qamruddin Tayabji, philanthropist Nakhuda Mohammed Ali Roghe, social worker Munshi Ghulam Mohammed and a few others, met, discussed threadbareand decided to start a school with three teachers and 120 students. They named it Anjuman-I-Islam.