Syud Hossain

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Syud Hossain
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Born(1888-06-23)23 June 1888
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died26 February 1949(1949-02-26) (aged 61)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial placeCairo
NationalityIndian
Parent
  • Nawab Syud Mohammad Azad (father)
Relatives

Syud Hossain (23 June 1888 – 26 February 1949)[1][2] was an Indian journalist, an Indian independence activist, and the first Indian ambassador to Egypt in the Jawaharlal Nehru administration.[3][4]

Background

Syud Hossain was born in Calcutta in the then Bengal Presidency, British India in 1888.[5] His father, Nawab Syud Mahomed Khan Bahadur (1850–1915), was the Inspector-General of Registration, Bengal.[6] His great-great-grandfather was Mir Ashraf Ali Khan (d. 1829).[1] Syud Hossain's mother was the daughter of Nawab Abdul Latif, a social reformer of Bengal.[5] Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873–1962) and Sir Hassan Suhrawardy (1888–1946), were his brother-in-laws.[1]

Hossain passed his Entrance Examination in 1904 and F.A. in 1906 from the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh. He then joined the Bengal Civil Service as a Sub-Deputy Collector in Calcutta but he soon went to England to pursue further education in 1909.[1][5]

Career

Hossain started his journalism career early in life and became the editor of Motilal Nehru's nationalist newspaper, The Independent.[7]

Hossain wrote "Echoes from Old Dacca", published in May 1909 and "Gandhi: The Saint as Statesman" in 1937.[6][8][9]

Hossain represented India at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920 for the Near Eastern Peace settlement.[9]

In the 1930s, he moved to California.[1] He served as a lecturer at the University of Southern California's Department of History as a visiting faculty lecturer. He taught two courses entitled "India's Civilization" and "Islamic Civilization" in the summer of 1934.[10] The university later conferred on him an honorary doctorate degree.[1]

When Hossain left the United States for India in 1946, a farewell dinner was organised for him at the Ceylon India Inn in New York City where the guests include Ragini Devi, Habib Rahman, and Indrani Rahman.[11]

Personal life

In 1919, Hossain secretly married Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a sister of Jawaharlal Nehru.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Khan, Waqar A. (2020-08-10). "An Indefatigable Crusader: Dr Syud Hossain". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  2. ^ Murshed, Syud Marghub (2021-06-05). "The Tale of a Forgotten Ambassador: A rediscovery of the life of a patriot". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  3. ^ "Embassy of India, Cairo, Egypt : List of former Ambassadors". www.eoicairo.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  4. ^ Vinodh, N. S. (2020-12-29). A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-81-947520-9-7.
  5. ^ a b c Choudhury, Enam Ahmed (2021-10-04). "Syud Hossain and his times". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  6. ^ a b Hossain, Syud (1909). Echoes from Old Dacca. Edinburgh Press.
  7. ^ "Syud Hossain: A forgotten ambassador brought back to life". South Asia Monitor. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  8. ^ Hossain, Syud (1937). Gandhi: The Saint as Statesman. Suttonhouse, Limited.
  9. ^ a b "Pamphlet for Lectures by Dr. Syud Hossain". South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). 2016-09-05. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  10. ^ "Syud Hossain Pamphlet". South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  11. ^ "The Resurrection Of a Forgotten Ambassador". Valley of Words. 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  12. ^ Reddy, Sheela (2017-03-17). "Excerpt: Mr and Mrs Jinnah". mint. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  13. ^ "Mrs Jinnah's love jihad in Mahatma Gandhi's time". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
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