He was a Bangladeshi journalist, politician and Islamic scholar. He is the founder of first Bengali newspaper The Azad.
Career:
Early in his career, he worked at newspapers the Ahl-i-Hadith and the Mohammadi Akhbar. Between 1908 to 1921, he worked as the editor of the Mohammadi and the Al-Islam. He published the Zamana and the Sebak between 1920 and 1922. Sebak was banned. Akram Khan ,as a nationalist, joined the Anti-Partition movement and Non-Cooperation movement launched by Congress under Gandhi's leadership. He was arrested for supporting the Non-cooperation and the Swadeshi Movements through his anti-government editorials.
He also joined Aii India Mommadan Educational Conference (The All India Muhammadan Educational Conference was an organisation promoting modern, liberal education for the Muslim community in India. It was founded by Syed Ahmed Khan, also the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University. The conference the Muslims at large. All India Mumammadan Educational Conference was the origin of the Muslim League.)was an all-India body that constituted a major part of the Aligarh Movement.With the view of promoting the educational cause of 70 million Indian Muslims, Sir Syed founded, in 1886, the Muhammadan Educational Conference which held its meeting at various places to provide a forum for discussing problems that affected The Muslim League was born in the 20th session of All India Muhammadan Educational Conference, which was established by Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh in the year 1886) held at Dacca in 1906. he became a founder member of Muslim League in that year.
He published weekly "Mohammadi" patrika in 1910 for developing Muslim Society. He was confined to jail for one year for criticising govt. in "Sevak" patrika.
Before joining politics, while as a student of Kolkata Alia Madrasa he generated a Movement in favour of Teaching all subjects in Bangla. He ofcourse got it done as of till today. Akram Khan was one of the founding members of the Muslim League in 1906. He was involved in the Khilafat and Non-cooperation Movement from 1918 to 1924. He was elected secretary of the All India Khilafat Committee at the conference held at Ahsan Manzil in Dhaka in 1920, which was attended by other eminent Khilafatist leaders like Abul Kalam Azad, Maniruzzaman Islamabadi and Mujibur Rahman. Akram was responsible for collecting funds for the Turkey Khilafat. During 1920-1923, he organised public meetings in different parts of Bengal to propagate the cause of the Khilafat and the Non-cooperation movements. As a believer in Hindu-Muslim amity, Akram Khan supported Chitta Ranjan Das's Swaraj Party in Kolkata in 1922, and also the Bengal pact in 1923. But due to the communal riots of 1926-1927 and other contemporary political developments, Akram Khan lost his faith in Indian nationalist politics and left both the Swaraj Party and Congress. From 1929 to 1935 he was deeply involved in Praja or peasant politics. However, he left peasant politics in 1936 and became an activist of the Muslim League. He was a member of the central working committee of the League until 1947. After the partition of India (1947) he opted for East Bengal and settled in Dhaka.He was the President of Muslim League (East Pakistan) till he retired from Politics on 1960. During the Language movement during 1952 his role is still remembered with gratitude. Maulana always belifed in Bengali Nationalism & in his personal Life his was secular as well as Prograssive.
He devoted himself to depict the ideals of Muslim League after publication of Nehru Report (The "Nehru Report" (August 1928) was a memorandum outlining a proposed new Dominion (see dominion status) constitution for India. It was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru with his son Jawaharlal acting as secretary. There were nine other members in this committee, including two Muslims. However, the final report was signed by only the following persons: Motilal Nehru, Ali Imam, Tej Bahadur Sapru, M.-S. Aney, Mangal Singh, Shuaib Qureshi, Subhas Chandra Bose, and G. R. Pradhan, with Shuaaib Qureshi disagreeing with some of the recommendations. of 1928 ) in 1928.He became elected in Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1935.
In October 1936, Akram published the revolutionary newspaper The Azad, the only Bengali daily of that time which contributed greatly to generate support for the Muslim League[disambiguation needed] in Bengal.
Literary works
- Samasya O Samadhan
- Mostafa Charit
- Amparar Tafser in Bangla
- Tafser-a-Quran in Bangla
- Muslim Banglar Samajik Itihas
Death
Mohammad Akram Khan died on 18 August 1969. He was buried at the Ahl-i-Hadith Bongshal mosque at Lalbagh PS in Dhaka.Awards and honors
- Independence Day Award, 1981; highest state award of Bangladesh.
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