Khwaja Salimullah
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| Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah | |
 Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur GCSI |
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| Reign | 1901 - 1915 |
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| Born | 7 June 1871 |
| Birthplace | Ahsan Manzil, Dhaka |
| Died | 16 January 1915 (aged 43) |
| Place of death | Chowringhee, Kolkata |
| Buried | Begum Bazaar, Dhaka |
| Predecessor | Nawab Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah |
| Successor | Nawab Khwaja Habibullah |
| Royal House | Dhaka Nawab Family |
| Father | Nawab Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah |
Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah was Nawab of Dhaka and a pioneer Muslim leader of Bengal.
Son of Nawab Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah, he joined the British Indian Civil Service as a Deputy Magistrate in 1892 and served till 1895. He became the Nawab of Dhaka in 1901 after the death of his father. He was the chairman of the reception committee of All India Muslim Education Conference which was held in Dhaka in December, 1906. He proposed the creation of the All India Muslim League (AIML) in this conference. He was a member of East Bengal and Assam Legislative Council from 1906 to 1907. He became the founder President of Bengal Muslim League in 1907. He was also a member of Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1913 till his death in Calcutta in 1915 at the age of 43.
He was a staunch supporter of the Partition of Bengal of 1905.He was one of the primary founders of Dhaka University. Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University, Salimullah Orphanage and Sir Salimullah Medical College of Dhaka, all are named after him.
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[edit] Nawabzada Khwaja Nasarullah
Nawabzada Khwaja Nasarullah (1907-1955) was the Son of Nawab Sir Salimullah and Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar (of Korotia, Tangail) was born on 11th July 1907. He was educated at St.Pauls School Darjeeling, Taluqdar College Lucknow, MAO College Delhi and Aligarh University. He married his first-cousin Jahanara Begum, the daughter of Syed Abdul Aziz Chowdhury and Nawabzadi Amena Bano Begum, in 1923. Nawabzada Nasarullah was the Vice Chairman of Dhaka Municipality. He Played a role of Police Commissioner in the first ever film of East Bengal "Last Kiss" (“Shukumari”), which was shot in Dilkusha Gardens, Dhaka. He was also a member of the censor board at that time and was involved in two other films named ‘Nazma’ and ‘Babul’.
Khwaja Nasarullah was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary for Civil Supply under the Muslim League and Krishak Praja Party Coalition Government in Bengal during 1937-1943. In 1943 he was made the Governor of Calcutta. On the insistence of Nawabzada Nasarullah the British Government agreed to hand back the Dariya-e-Noor diamond to the Dhaka Nawab Family in 1948. Nawabzada Nasarullah guarded and accompanied by Indian Army soldiers up till the border with East Pakistan brought back the diamond to Dhaka. Nawabzada Khwaja Nasarullah invited Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Maulana Abdul Khan Bhashani ot his house in Dilkusha Gardens in 1948, where they sat together in a political discussion. He Served as Chief Whip from 1947 to 1953. In 1953, Nawabzada Nasarullah was appointed Pakistan's Deputy High Commissiner in Calcutta. Nawabzada Khwaja Nasarullah died in Calcutta in June 1955, aged 45 years. Nawabzada Nasarullah had five sons namely, Khwaja Reshad Nasarullah, Khwaja Khalid Nasarullah, Khwaja Shoib Nasarullah, Khwaja Zaid Nasarullah, and Khwaja Masood Nasarullah.
[edit] Khwaja Masood Nasarullah
The youngest son of Nawabzada Khwaja Nasarullah. Died 4th Dec 2000.
[edit] Khwaja Nabil Nasarullah
Khwaja Nabil Nasarullah was born on june 7th 1964, is son of Khwaja Khalid Nasarullah.Wife Rehnuma Nabil Daughter of Tanwir Ahmed Chowdhury of Sylhet. Currently Doing Business in usa Since 1994,His Two Son Khwaja Zair Nasarullah & Khwaja Zayn Nasrullah, And a Daughter Samin Zara Nasarullah.
[edit] Khwaja Anas Nasarullah
Khwaja Anas Nasarullah was born on May 15 1984, is the youngest Son of Khwaja Masood Nasarullah, who was also the youngest among the sons of Nawabzada Nasarullah and Great Grandson of Nawab Sir Salimullah Bahadur. He Graduated in Computer Engineering from North South University and is currently working as a Software Engineer at Relisource Technologies Limited, Dhaka.
[edit] Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar
Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar was born in 1887. Her father was Hafez Mahmud Ali Khan Panni, the Zamindar of Korotia in Tangail district. And her mother came from the Royal Ottoman Family, and was the niece of Sultan Abdul Meccid. Raushan Akhtar was educated at home, and was taught Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English. Raushan Akhtar got married to Nawab Sir Salimullah in 1896. They had three children: Nawabzada Hafizullah, Nawabzada Nasarullah and Nawabzadi Ahmedi Bano Begum. Raushan Akhtar’s brother was Haider Ali Khan Panni of Korotia, and half brother, Wajed Ali Khan Panni worked with and supported Nawab Sir Salimullah for the partition of Bengal, and the formation of Muslim League. In 1913, Wajed Ali Khan Panni held the Muslim Education Conference in Korotia, which Nawab Sir Salimullah chaired. Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar was widowed in 1915, at the young age of 28, yet never remarried, maintaining a dignified quiet, religious and simple lifestyle, in Purdah.
After Independence of Pakistan in 1947, when Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Miss Fatima Jinnah visited Dhaka, Miss Fatima Jinnah called on Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar, who was the youngest and only surviving Begum of Nawab Salimullah. Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar, dressed simply in her usual plain white cotton sari, received Miss Fatima Jinnah in the Durbar Hall of the Ahsan Manzil Palace, where both of them sat on the gold and silver throne-chairs. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was received outside, in the gardens of Ahsan Manzil Palace, by her stepson, Nawab Bahadur Habibullah. Nawab Begum Raushan Akhtar died in 1971 in Karachi, where she was visiting her granddaughter.
[edit] References
- Ahmed, Sharifuddin. Dhaka: Past, Present and Future. The Asiatic Society,Dhaka, 1991. ISBN 984-512-335-0.
- Mamun, Muntasir. Dhaka: Smriti Bismritir Nagari. Dhaka, 1993. ISBN 984-412-104-3.
- Taifoor, S.M. Glimpses of Old Dacca. Dhaka, 1956.
