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First thing First .... the so called Muslim feudal elite /Mansabdaar's or Nawabs or Subedaar's type later who under British became Zameendaar's dint just invited British against Marathas but had earlier even called Nadir shah Nd then same delhi clergy likes of waliullah dehelvi called ahmed shah abdali against marathas again and before that there ancesstors had called Babbar against Pathan Ibrahim Lodhi who they thought was a bif too soft towards Rajpoots and even had Hindu Hemu as his Army chiefI think you are painting with too broad a brush and don't understand the underlying dynamics.
Educated Middle class Indian Muslims rejected Western education as a protest against the British Raj starting in the mid 1700s (Company Raj) following Bangla Nawab's defeat at Palashi (Plessey), they were not going to lick British boots. Which is why the lower rate of education for Muslims in British India and why they did not feature widely as administrative servants under Company and British Raj.
Upper class Indian Muslims got educated in Western Universities any way.
Middle class Indian Muslims got Aligarh Renaissance later (and similar opportunities).
so cutting long story short these same muslim feudals and religious and high clergy in Shahi court had time and again invited foriegn powers even Tipu sultan had invited Shah of Afghanistan to wage a Jihad against growing powers of marathas in deccan and middle india and sikhs , rajpoots and jaats in north and north western india
Having said that on the education front even there there was never a problem even in times since mamluk empires there was a wast madarssa culture specially all across UP , MP and what was Pakistan and indian Punjab , haryana and higher english styel education for elite muslims was not limited to AMU
funny fact is the language URDU was propogated by British before that in till early 1900s it was called Zuban E URDU or "Rekhta" or DACCANNI or commonlli as HINDVI/Hindustani
but when British started there hyper Divide & rule policy for which they divided East & west bengal on basis of Hindu and muslim and statrted using muslim elite against Congress which now strated to show nationalistic and revolting colours with people like Bal Ganghadar Tilak , Lalla Lajpat Rai Bipin Chandra pal or bunkin chandra chaterjiand Molana Hazrat Mohani had started asking for SWARAJ so British perpped up muslim elite and for that they first drew a DURAND LINE and sepratted Afghanistan from Hindustan which was always considerred part of Indian civilization(Gandhara) since times of Mahabharta or Ashoka and even Mughals and later Nepal and Bhutan and mayanmar/burma and Cylone/sri lanka from united India and lastly Pakistan was acrved out of Unted India which in 1971 also gave birth to Bangladesh
long story short Muslim elite always put its False ego and martial race superiorty above the people or nation/civilization of Hindustan which they never considerred themselfs as part of but only as Victors/Hukumraan E waqt and rest every one as there RIYAYYAH and for that time and agained invited invaders and betrayed and killed there own people .... tell me has anything changed