Ross Masood
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Sir Ross Masood (February 15, 1889 - 1937), was the only grandson of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the father of Muslim renaissance in Indian subcontinent . Born to Syed Mahmud, he was educated at Aligarh and Oxford.
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[edit] Services to Education
On his return from England, he was elected a trustee of MAO College and started legal practice at Patna. However, after a short time, he entered the Indian Education Service. He was headmaster of Patna high School, a professor at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa), and a fellow of Calcutta, Madras and Osmania universities. From 1916 to 1928, he was director of Public Instruction in Hyderabad. He became the Vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1929. Sir Ross Masood had introduced new courses and upgraded the syllabi. He established laboratories for various science subjects and appointed distinguished scholars and scientists on the staff.
[edit] He and Iqbal
He was close friend to Allama Iqbal, the poet-philosopher, who remembered him in these words when Ross Masood died.
- This Moon and Sun the skies and stars lot.
- Who know that this world would live or not.
- The thought of Aim and Stays, my fiction’s same,
- This life looks a journey sanz any aim.
- Ah! the world kept not that monuments shine,
- Of Mehmood and Ahmad’s miracles fine.
- His death to knowledge a fall and decay,
- A great wealth he was for caravan’s stay.
- It moves me to weeping, the world’s cold ways,
- At dawn to wail of birds, they think songs gay.
- Say not, hid in patience, cure of friend’s grief,
- Say not, patience solves the death’s crossword brief [1]
[edit] References
- ^ The late Masood (English translation of the poem), from Iqbal Academy Pakistan
[edit] External links
- Ross Masood Hall, Aligarh Muslim University
- The late Masood (English translation of a poem), Iqbal Academy Pakistan
- Ross Masood & EM Forester, emforester.de
- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's Descendants (family tree), The Wisdom Fund
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| History: | 1857 War of Independence - Hindi-Urdu controversy - Aligarh Movement - MAO College - Aligarh Muslim University - Pakistan movement |
| Pioneers: | Sir Syed - Mohsin-ul-Mulk - Viqar-ul-Mulk - Maulana Hali - Shibli Nomani - Hakim Ajmal Khan - more... |
| Alumni: | Ross Masood - Maulana Mohammad Ali - Liaquat Ali Khan - Khawaja Nazimuddin - Zakir Hussain - Abdur Rab Nishtar - Sheikh Abdullah - Ziauddin Ahmed - Maulana Shaukat Ali - Zafar Ali Khan - more... |
