Abdul Hamid Khan Yusufzai Explained

Abdul Hamid Khan Yusufzai
Native Name:আবদুল হামিদ খান ইউসফজয়ী
Native Name Lang:bn
Birth Date:1845 CE
Birth Place:Charan, Kalihati, Tangail, Bengal Presidency
Death Place:Dhaka
Nationality:British Raj
Occupation:Poet, journalist, author
Known For:The Ahmadi
Office:may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) -->
Spouse:Azizunnisa
Father:Shawhar Ali
Relatives:Nowsher Ali Khan Yusufzai
Family:Yusufzai family

ʿAbdul Ḥamīd Khān Yūsufzaī (Bengali: আবদুল হামিদ খান ইউসফজয়ী; 1845–1915) is a Bengali writer, journalist, and politician.[1] [2]

Early life

Yusufzai was born in 1845 to a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Charan in Kalihati, Tangail, Bengal Presidency, British Raj (now in Bangladesh). His family traced their ancestry to Pashtuns of the Yusufzai tribe, who had migrated from Afghanistan to Bengal and become culturally assimilated. He worked as an estate manager at the Delduar zamindar estate in Tangail along with notable writer Mir Mosharraf Hossain.[3] He was married to Aziz-un-Nisa.[4]

Career

Yusufzai was a progressive journalist who published a secular fortnightly, The Ahmadi (unrelated to the Ahmadiyya movement). The first issue came out in 1886. The Ahmadi was supported by Karimunnessa Khanam Chowdhurani, the wife of Abdul Hakim Khan Ghaznawi, the Zamindar of Delduar. He and The Ahmadi fought a lawsuit against the Akhbare Islamia magazine over the Hanafi-La-Mazhabi and slaughter of cows.

He worked with Surendranath Banerjee. He joined the Indian National Congress, the Swadeshi movement and other anti-British activities. His first book, Sarsangraha, was published in 1887.[5]

Death

Yusufzai died in 1915.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Sengupta. Nitish K.. Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib. 2011. Penguin Books India. 9780143416784. 288. en.
  2. Book: Ray. Bharati. Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods. 2005. SAGE Publications India. 9788132102649. 429. en.
  3. Ahmed, Wakil. Yusufzai, Abdul Hamid Khan.
  4. Book: Khan. Muhammad Mojlum. The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal. 2013. Kube Publishing Ltd. 177. 9781847740625. 7 December 2017. en.
  5. Book: Haan. Francisca de. Women's Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present. 2013. Routledge. 9780415535755. 113. en.