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Kabiruddin Ahmed
Khabeeruddin Ahmed (also spelled Kabeeruddin, Kabiruddin or K. Ahmed; 1870 – March 1939) was a politician, lawyer, and a member of Central Legislative Assembly of British India.Legislative Assembly Debates, Vol III, Part I, p570, Government Central Press, 1922 He was a founding member of the all India independent Democratic Party, and later became a leader of the All-India Muslim League. Early life and education Ahmed was born in 1870 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Kansat Union, Biswanathpur in Chapai Nawabganj, Nawabganj (now in Bangladesh), then part of the Malda district of the Bengal Presidency. He was admitted to the University of Cambridge, and trained as a barrister at the Gray's Inn in London. Career Upon his return to British India, he enrolled at the Calcutta High Court, and took an interest in British Indian national politics. In addition, he practiced law at the Federal Court of India when it was established in New Delhi. Khabeeruddin died in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another, they existed between 1612 and 1947, conventionally divided into three historical periods: *Between 1612 and 1757, the East India Company set up "factories" (trading posts) in several locations, mostly in coastal India, with the consent of the Mughal emperors, Maratha Empire or local rulers. Its rivals were the merchant trading companies of Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France. By the mid-18th century three ''Presidency towns'': Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, had grown in size. *During the period of Company rule in India, 1757–1858, the Company gradually acquired sovereignty over large parts of India, now called "Presidencies". However, it also increasingly came under British government oversight, in effect sharing sovereig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
