Naseeruddin Mauzi Explained

Naseeruddin Mauzi Nagar
Birth Place:Lakhimpur Kheri, British India
Movement:Khilafat Movement

Naseeruddin Mauzi Nagar was an Indian Khilafat Movement activist. He was one of three Khilafat Movement activists hanged by the colonial authorities for the killing of Sir Robert William Douglas Willoughby, Deputy Commissioner of Kheri, on 26 August 1920.[1]

The East India Company built Willoughby Memorial Hall in 1924 in memory of Robert William Douglas Willoughby.[2] [3] On 26 April 1936, Willoughby Memorial Library was established. The Willoughby Memorial Hall was recently renamed the Naseeruddin Memorial Hall.

Notes and References

  1. Uttar Pradesh district gazetteers, Vol. 33. Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, 1979. p. 34
  2. Web site: Haileybury Roll of Honour: India 1920s. Haileybury School website. 19 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131112121434/http://www.haileybury.com/honour/INDIA%201920s.htm. 12 November 2013. dead.
  3. Web site: AIALA State Conference in UP . 2013-07-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112120134/http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2004/october/aiala_up.htm . 12 November 2013 . dmy-all .