Abdur Rahim (judge)
Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar | |
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Member of Central Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1930–1945 | |
Preceded by | Mohamed Rafique |
Constituency | Calcutta & Suburbs |
Personal details | |
Born | British Indian (until 1947) Pakistan (after 1947) | 7 September 1867
Political party | All-India Muslim League Bengal Muslim Party |
Children | Jalaludin Abdur Rahim Begum Niaz Fatima |
Alma mater | Presidency College, University of Calcutta |
Sir Abdur Rahim,
Life
Rahim was born into a highly educated family of
Beyond his profession, Rahim was active in the world of education and became a member of the Senate and the Syndicate of the University of Madras.[8] He was one of those who successfully promoted the foundation of the Maulana Azad College.[9]
On 20 July 1908, Rahim was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Madras,[10] and in September 1912 (with Lord Islington, Lord Ronaldshay, Herbert Fisher, and others) as a member of the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India of 1912–1915.[11]
Rahim went on to become
While he was still a judge of the High Court of Madras, Rahim gave a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta which were later published under the title The Principles of Muhammadan Jurisprudence according to the
Entering politics, he became a member of the Bengal Province Executive Council and served as the province's Administrator of Justice and Allied Subjects from 1921 to 1925.
In the 1925 Birthday Honours, Rahim was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI).[15][16]
In December 1925 and January 1926, Rahim chaired the 17th session of the
In 1926, he presided over the All-India Mohammadan Educational Conference and argued for the use of the
Also in 1926, he formed a political party called the Bengal Muslim Party.[18] The Modern Review commented:
For any Muslim, and particularly for Sir Abdur Rahim, to form such a party cannot surprise anybody. But what is amusing is that he has felt it necessary to camouflage it as something other than what it is. For the party speaks in the opening paragraph of its manifesto in the most liberal and nonsectarian tones.[18]
In 1928, Rahim was the president of the Bengal Muslim Conference which opposed the Nehru Report, and in 1930 of the Bengal Muslim Conference which opposed the proposals of the Simon Commission.[5]
From 1929 to 1934, he was President of the
In 1931, he was elected to the
A member of the Indian Military College Committee, Rahim was sometimes skeptical of British policy. He was also opposed to recruiting men from outside India into the
In June 1939, the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, wrote to the Secretary of State for India, Lord Zetland, after sounding out Rahim on Muslim attitudes towards the proposed Federation of India –
I had not anticipated that he would be anything but right wing; but I was, I confess, a little surprised by the extreme communal vigour of his views and by the conviction with which he maintained that his co-religionists now stood, as he put it, with their backs to the wall and must fight.[21]
In October 1939, with Sir Abdullah Haroon, Rahim visited
In 1946, Rahim donated his collection of 333
After moving to Pakistan in 1947, he settled in Karachi, where he eventually suffered from pneumonia and died in 1952.[24]
His daughter Begum Niaz Fatima married the
Publications
- Rahim, Abdur (1911). The Principles of Muhammadan Jurisprudence according to the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali Schools (PDF). London: Luzac & Co.
References
- OCLC 1838449.
- ^ A History of the Freedom Movement: 1906–1936 (Renaissance Publishing House, 1984) p. 408
- ^ Eminent Mussalmans (Neeraj Publishing House, 1981) p. 465
- ^ Eminent Mussalmans, p. 250
- ^ a b c d e f S. M. Ikram, Indian Muslims and Partition of India (Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 1992) p. 308-310
- ^ a b Salahuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Past and Present (APH Publishing, 2004), p. 86
- ^ a b Sir Abdur Rahim Archived 4 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine at rajyasabha.gov.in
- ^ A History of the Freedom Movement: 1906–1936, p. 409
- ISBN 9788188861033.
- ^ London Gazette, Issue 28161 of 24 July 1908, p. 5420 Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ London Gazette, Issue 28642 of 6 September 1912, p. 6631 Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 31587". The London Gazette. 7 October 1919. p. 12419.
- ^ Rahim, Abdur (1911). The Principles of Muhammadan Jurisprudence according to the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali Schools (PDF). London: Luzac.
- ^ a b M. Hamidullah, Emergence of Islam, extract at muslim-canada.org
- ^ "No. 33053". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 3 June 1925. p. 3770.
- ^ The Calcutta Review ser. 3, v. 15, 1925 (University of Calcutta, 1925) p. 396
- ^ Shan Muhammad, The Indian Muslims (Meenakshi Prakashan, 1985) pp. 114–116
- ^ a b Ramananda Chatterjee, ed., The Modern Review vol. 39, Jan–June 1926 (Prabasi Press, 1926) p. 601
- ^ Praja Party at banglapedia
- ^ Gautam Sharma, Nationalisation of the Indian Army, 1885–1947 (Allied Publishers, 1996) p. 138
- ^ Marquess of Zetland, Essayez, p. 253
- ^ Chronology of the Khaksar Tehrik and its Leader, Allama Mashriqi Archived 2 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine at allama-mashriqi.8m.com
- ^ Gift Collections Archived 13 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine at nationallibrary.gov.in
- ^ Muhammad Mojlum Khan, The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal, Kube Publishing Ltd (2013), p. 279