Khabeeruddin Ahmed Explained

Khabeeruddin Ahmed
Bengali: খাবীরুদ্দিন আহমেদ
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Nationality:British Indian
Term Start:1920
Term End:1939
Constituency:Rajshahi
Term Start1:1920
Term End1:1923
Constituency1:Bengal Presidency
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
Birth Date:1870
Birth Place:Biswanathpur, Nawabganj, Malda district, Bengal Presidency
Death Place:New Delhi, British India

Khabeeruddin Ahmed (also spelled Kabeeruddin, Kabiruddin or K. Ahmed; 1870 – March 1939) was a politician, lawyer, and a member of Central Legislative Assembly of British India.[1] [2] He was a founding member of the all India independent Democratic Party,[3] and later became a leader of the All-India Muslim League.[4]

Early life and education

Ahmed was born in 1870 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Biswanathpur in Nawabganj (now in Bangladesh), then part of the Malda district of the Bengal Presidency. He was admitted to the University of Cambridge, and trained as a barrister at the Gray's Inn in London.[5] [6]

Career

Upon his return to British India, he enrolled at the Calcutta High Court, and took an interest in British Indian national politics.[7] In addition, he practiced law at the Federal Court of India when it was established in New Delhi. Khabeeruddin died in New Delhi in March 1939.[8] He was a member of the Central Legislative Assembly until he died.[9]

Notes and References

  1. https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/760014/1/clad_01_09-03-1921.pdf Legislative Assembly Debates, Simla Feb 3 1921, p800-810
  2. Legislative Assembly Debates, Vol III, Part I, p570, Government Central Press, 1922
  3. News: A New Party for Assembly. The Indian Express. 21 September 1936.
  4. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=260&view=text Major Elections, 1920–45, Schwartzberg Atlas, p222
  5. http://cambridge.org/9781107511934 John Venn and J. A. Venn, The Book of Matriculations and Degrees 1901–1912, the University of Cambridge, 2015
  6. Web site: Archive of The Honorable Society of Gray's Inn . 23 April 2019 . 23 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190423162951/https://www.graysinn.org.uk/history/archives . dead .
  7. https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/782794/1/clad_05_04_03-09-1936.pdf Legislative Assembly Debate, Vol 6, 1936, p334, New Delhi
  8. News: bn:একটি ঐতিহ্য সংরক্ষণের আহবান . Khabeeruddin family pleads for preservation of history . http://www.kalerkantho.com/online/nagorik-montobbo/2018/12/24/718280 . Kaler Kantho . 24 December 2018 . bn.
  9. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45795/page/n123 The Indian Annual Register, Vol 1, 1939, pp84, Gian Publishing House