17 Facts About Khwaja Salimullah

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Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur was the fourth Nawab of Dhaka and one of the leading Muslim politicians during the British rule in India.

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Sir Salimullah was a key patron of education for the Eastern Bengal.

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Khwaja Salimullah was one of the founders of the University of Dhaka and the prestigious Ahsanullah School of Engineering.

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Sir Khwaja Salimullah was a staunch supporter of the Partition of Bengal and was a member of East Bengal and Assam Legislative Council from 1906 to 1907.

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Khwaja Salimullah was a member of Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1913 till his death in Calcutta in 1915 at the age of 43.

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Khwaja Salimullah was the founder President of Bengal Muslim League in 1907.

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Khwaja Salimullah began his career in government service in 1893 as Deputy Magistrate, a position he held until he departed in 1895 to start his business in Mymensingh.

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On 16 October 1905, the day the Bengal Province was parted, Khwaja Salimullah presided over a meeting of Muslim leaders from all over East Bengal in Northbrook Hall where a political front called Mohammedan Provincial Union was formed.

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On 14 and 15 April 1906, Khwaja Salimullah organized and was named president at the first convention of East Bengal and Assam Provincial Educational Conference at Shahbag, Dhaka.

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Two years later, in December 1908, Khwaja Salimullah would speak out for free speech in educational institutes and rights for Muslims to separate elections.

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Khwaja Salimullah served as the chairman at the 22nd Convention of the All India Mohammedan Educational Conference at Amritsar in December 1908.

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On 2 March 1912, Khwaja Salimullah chaired a meeting at which the two Muslim Leagues of the Bengal were combined into the Presidency Muslim League and the two Muslim Associations were combined into the Bengal Presidency Muslim Association.

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Khwaja Salimullah was the eldest son of the third Nawab of Dhaka, Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah and his first wife Nawab Begum Wahidunnesa.

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Khwaja Salimullah was the grandson of Nawab of Dhaka, Sir Khwaja Abdul Ghani.

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Nawab Khwaja Salimullah was born at the Ahsan Manzil Palace on 7 June 1871.

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Several of Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah's descendants went on to become prominent politicians in the later days of the British Raj and in Pakistan.

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Khwaja Salimullah had played a role in bringing freedom to Bangladesh.