Syed Mahmud was an Indian politician and senior leader in the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and in post-independence India.
17 Facts About Syed Mahmud
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Syed Mahmud was a member of the foundation committee of Jamia Millia Islamia.
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Syed Mahmud was born in Syedpur Bhitari, Ghazipur district of India.
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Syed Mahmud was one of the young Muslim leaders who played a role in crafting the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League.
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Syed Mahmud participated in the Indian Home Rule Movement in 1916 and in the Non-cooperation movement and the Khilafat movement under the influence and leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Syed Mahmud's emphasis was on providing primary education to largest possible number of people, worked for revision of curricula, appointed Urdu teachers in the Patna University.
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Syed Mahmud fought for raising the proportion of Muslims in the government jobs and in the local bodies.
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The succession of fellow Bihari Congressman Srikrishna Sinha to the post over Syed Mahmud caused some controversy, but Syed Mahmud joined Sinha's government as a cabinet minister and was accorded third place in the cabinet.
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Syed Mahmud wrote a book, A Plan of Provincial Reconstruction.
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Syed Mahmud was engaged in such exercise when other big leaders of Bihar were engaged in caste based factionalism, much lamented by Ram Manohar Lohia, Jaya Prakash Narayan and Sahajanand Saraswati.
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Syed Mahmud was one of the members of the Congress Working Committee that endorsed the 1942 Quit India movement, calling for an immediate end to British rule.
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Syed Mahmud met with Gandhi, and afterwards apologized for writing the letter and letting down his friends and the movement.
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Syed Mahmud's standing with Indian nationalists improved over the succeeding years.
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Syed Mahmud was one of the secular Muslim leaders who opposed the Muslim League's demand for the creation of a separate Muslim state of Pakistan, and worked with other Indian leaders against the resulting communal violence between Muslims and Hindus in Bihar and other parts of India.
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Syed Mahmud participated in the historic Bandung Conference, where the Panchsheel was spelled out.
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Syed Mahmud played remarkable roles in India's useful diplomatic relations with the Gulf countries, Iran and Egypt.
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Syed Mahmud served as the deputy Minister of External Affairs between 1954 and 1957 and represented India at the Bandung Conference.