Alfazuddin Ahmed was a Bengali politician.

Early life and education

Ahmed was born into a

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family in the village of Dhalhara in the

Midnapore district Midnapore (Pron: mad̪aːniːpur), or sometimes Medinipur, is a former district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Midnapore. On 1 January 2002, the district was bifurcated into two separate districts namely Purba Medinipur ...

of the

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. He holds a

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degree.Proceedings-Of-The-Indian-History-Congress, Third Session, Calcutta 1939

Career

Ahmed contested in the 1937 Bengal Legislative Assembly election and won a seat at the

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. He was a member of the Primary Education Curriculum Committee and the Sub-Committee for English Studies.School Education in Bengal, Alipore 1937, Bengal Government Press Ahmed was a member of the Reception Committee of the Third Session of the Indian History Congress on behalf of the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

References

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