Syed Shamsul Huda
Syed Shamsul Huda | |
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Calcutta , Bengal Presidency, British India | |
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His father Syed Riazat Ullah was the editor of The Doorbeen, a Persian weekly journal.
Education
Syed Shamsul Huda completed primary education at home. His father taught him Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, and Islamic ideology. For higher education, he went to
Huda was a student in many fields of knowledge. He was one of the most articulate Muslims of his age. He became an iconic
Career
Syed Shamsul Huda joined the Calcutta Madrasah as a lecturer in 1885. He decided to be a lawyer and started practicing in Calcutta High Court in 1887. That lead him to step into politics. The Indian National Congress was established in 1885 and proposed to all Indian people to join despite religions. They succeeded by collecting full support from great Indian Muslim leaders Syed Ahmad Khan, Nawab Abdul Latif, and Syed Ameer Ali. Later for few days, Congress leaders changed their opinion and started partitioning. Muslim leaders called the next Annual Meeting in 1895. Huda addressed to stop this and advised the ways to make a more united and effective Congress. His address is known as Indian Politics and the Muhammadans. Hence, he became at the top of the political body.[4]
Huda opposed the budget for 1905. That was a budget created for the development of colleges, hospitals, and other institutions in Calcutta that was spending East Bengal's revenue. He proposed spending for such institutions in East Bengal for the welfare of East Bengal Muslims. But the elite Hindus highly opposed it. He wrote:
... The best of Colleges, Hospitals, and other institutions were founded in or near about the Capital of India.... [the] neglect of years and cannot be blamed if [we] require large sums to put our house in order.[5]
He also mentioned on another occasion:
They [Hindus] have benefited for very many years out of the revenues of Eastern Bengal and have paid very little for its progress and advancement ... [5]
Authority selected Huda as a
He is one of the leaders of public opinion in his Province, and is On the forefront of all movements concerning the Mohammadan community.[5]
Huda was the
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael stated:
...my judgement the Mohamedan community in Bengal could have had no more sympathetic or better advocate than he has been.[9]
Huda became the first British Indian Muslim president of the reoriented legislative council of East and West Bengal in 1921.
...he rendered the greatest service within his power to Bengal and to the Reforms - a service which will always be held in honourable remembrance. [9]
Surendranath Banerjee stated:
...his demands for the rights and claims of his co-religionists. In fact he was a gentleman in the highest sense of the word.[9]
...He worked round the clock to improve the existential condition of his fellow Muslims during his long and distinguished career as a jurist, leader and politician.[10]
Contributions to education
Syed Shamsul Huda created accommodations founding Carmichael Hostel in Calcutta for rural university-going Muslim students of Bengal. He sanctioned two-thirds of funds from the government to establish the Elliot Madrasah Hostel in 1898. Estimated Rs. 5,400 contributed by the Nawab Abdul Latif Memorial Committee. He created the post of "assistant director for Muslim education" for each division.
Huda sanctioned the large sum of Rs. 900,000 from the Bengal government to purchase land to establish a government college for Muslims in Calcutta. The opening ceremony was postponed until 1926 due to the
Huda founded Gokarna Syed Waliuallah High School naming his same-aged uncle on his paternal property in 1915. It was the first government-aided school in Nasirnagar for Hindu and Muslim students.[11]
Major elites Hindus like
Huda funded the journals Sudhakar (1889), The Urdu Guide Press, and The Muhammadan Observer (1880).[14] He prevented religious obligation for women's education in Bengal. He supported and encouraged Begum Rokeya for women's education and development and her Bengal Women's Education Project.[15]
Death
Syed Shamsul Huda lived at 211 Lawyer Circular Road, Calcutta. He died on 14 October 1922 and was buried in Tiljola Municipal graveyard. The Calcutta Weekly Notes wrote of his death:
Sir Shamsul Huda has passed away at the time when his countrymen have stood in the greatest need of that happy combination of qualities which make leadership and which he possessed in a pre-eminent degree.[10]
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- ^ "Why and who opposed the establishment of Dhaka University?". Daily Phulpur. 2 September 2021.
- ^ "Egregious allegations of communalism against Rabindranath". New Age. 20 July 2022.
- ^ "A colossus from Brahmanbaria". The Daily Star. 20 July 2022.
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