Syed Abdul Majid

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Syed Abdul Majid
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
(1922)

Syed Abdul Majid,

British India as well as his contributions to both secular and Islamic education in Sylhet
.

Early life

Abdul Majid was born in 1872 to a noble

Sylheti), he was fluent in English and Urdu, and a moderate proficiency in Arabic.[2]

Completing his

BL (Hons) degree in 1894.[1]

Abdul Majid kept a beard, as per

pyjamas.[3]

Career

The All India Muhammadan Educational Conference, at Dhaka (1906)

Abdul Majid was a lawyer associated with the Sylhet District Bar Association for a few years after graduating before going into politics and agriculture.

Muslim, he joined the Anjuman-e-Islamia movement. This forum was the only Muslim political organisation which preceded the All-India Muslim League. He was made the secretary of its Sylhet unit in 1902 and later its president. In 1904, he opened the Brahmanchara Tea Estate alongside Muhammad Bakht Mazumdar, Karim Bakhsh and Ghulam Rabbani. He was also made Sylhet Pourashava's vice-chairman in 1906 and later chairman in 1909 for 3 years. As a District Session Judge based in Assam, he was invited by the Nawab of Dhaka, Khwaja Salimullah, to attend the 1906 All India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Shahbag, Dhaka. This conference was crucial to the development of the All-India Muslim League.[5]

He was invited by the

Sylhet region. The authorised capital of the company was 1 lakh rupees, paid up capital was 7 lakh rupees, and subscribed capital was 8 lakh rupees.[7] In addition to owning tea gardens, he also owned many agricultural farms and one oil mill which made him the first native to do so in Assam.[8]

During the

coronation.[1]

In 1912, he established the Muslim Institute Hall in Sylhet as a new headquarters for the Anjuman-e-Islamia, located south of Shah Jalal's dargah. It is now known as the Shaheed Suleman Hall and has been known as Jinnah Hall at one point.[9]

In 1913, he also founded and developed the

Sylhet town. In response, wealthy Mahimal businessman managed to raise the money and hand it to him. With that money, several acres of land suitable for the construction of madrasa houses, including the present government Alia Madrasa ground, located southeast of the Dargah, were purchased and the necessary construction work was also completed. Abdul Majid was questioned by some people for the reason that he approached the Mahimal community (which is generally seen as a neglected lower-class Muslim social group). He responded by saying that he did to show that this community can do big things and that they should not be neglected.[12]

In 1916, he upgraded Murari Chand College's status to first grade degree level and laid the school's foundation stone in Thackeray Hills alongside William Sinclair Marris in 1921.[13][1][3][8]

In 1919, as president and chairman of Anjuman-e-Islamia's reception committee, he invited the

Sylhet Sadar.[10]

Abdul Majid was a prominent leader of the Sylhet-Bengal Reunion League founded in 1920, to mobilise public opinion demanding Sylhet and Cachar's incorporation into Bengal.[14] However, during the Surma Valley Muslim Conference of September 1928, Abdul Majid and the Anjuman-e-Islamia later opposed the transfer of Sylhet and Cachar to Bengal and supported Muhammad Bakht Mazumdar's resolution.[15]

Syed Abdul Majid was honoured as an invited elite to King George V's Delhi Durbar in 1911.

Awards

In 1915, the

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire as part of King George V's 1922 New Year Honours. This was during Abdul Majid's office as the Minister for Education for the Governor of Assam, William Sinclair Marris.[17]

Death

Abdul Majid died in

romanized: Bismrito Kaptan). Abdul Majid also had a son called Syed Maqsood.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^
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  2. ^ a b Syed Ahmed Mortada (31 May 2014). "When Tagore came to Sylhet". The Daily Star.
  3. ^ a b c খানবাহাদুর সৈয়দ আব্দুল মজিদ কাপ্তান মিঞা বিস্মৃত ইতিহাসের আলোকিত পুরুষ. The Daily Sangram (in Bengali). 23 April 2011.
  4. ^ "Secretary Message". Sylhet District Bar Association.
  5. ^ Home Pub.(A) Feb 1907, No.71-74, NAI
  6. OL 30677644M
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  7. ^ IOR/V/24/556, Report on Working of the Indian Companies Act VII of 1913 in the Province of Assam for the year 1921-22, (Shillong 1922) p. 9.
  8. ^ a b Dr Ziauddin Ahmed (24 February 2018). খান বাহাদুর আবদুল মাজিদ এক উজ্জ্বল নক্ষত্র (in Bengali). Philadelphia, United States: Prothom Alo.
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  10. ^ a b Said Chowdhury Tipu (29 July 2016). ইতিহাসের সিলেট : শিলংয়ে জীবনাবসান হলো কাপ্তান মিয়ার. Real Times 24 (in Bengali). Sylhet.
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  12. ^ a b Abdullah bin Saeed Jalalabadi (December 2011). সিলেটের মাইমল সমাজ : ঐতিহ্য সত্ত্বেও উপেক্ষিত [The Maimal community of Sylhet: Neglected despite of heritage]. Al Kawsar (in Bengali).
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  14. ISBN 978-1-317-96647-0
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  15. ^ Bhuyan, Arun Chandra (2000). Nationalist Upsurge in Assam. Government of Assam.
  16. The Indian Biographical Dictionary
    . 1915. p. 26.
  17. ^ "No. 32563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1921. p. 10715.

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