Ibrahim Ali Chatuli (

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: إبراهيم على (جتولي); ; 1894–1984) was a

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Islamic scholar, politician and social reformer. He was the Education Minister of

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, and an elected Member of the

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belonging to the

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political party. His constituency joined the

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after the

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in 1947.

Early life

Ibrahim Ali Chatuli was born in 1894, to a

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family in the village of Haratail in Barachatul Union, Kanaighat,

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. His father Munshi Abdul Karim was a scholar and poet. He studied at Jhingabari Alia Madrasa in Kanaighat, Ajiria Madrasa in

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and Rampur Madrasa in India. He was a disciple of

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Career

Ibrahim Chatuli was for a long time the Imam and Khatib of Sylhet Nayasarak Jame Mosque. In 1938 he was elected a Member of the British Parliament from

. After that he was the Education Minister of Assam Provincial Council. During the

1946 Indian provincial elections Provincial elections were held in British India in January 1946 to elect members of the legislative councils of the Indian provinces. The Congress, in a repeat of the 1937 elections, won (90%) of the general non-Muslim seats while the Muslim ...

, he was elected as a Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly (MLA) from

in the Sylhet Sadar-N constituency. After the

Sylhet referendum The 1947 Sylhet referendum was held in Sylhet District of the Assam Province of British India to decide whether the district would remain in undivided Assam and therefore within the post-independence Dominion of India, or leave Assam for East ...

which incorporated the district into Pakistan, he became a member of the

. Was the general secretary of the then Ulema-e-Hind in the province of Assam, The undisputed leader of the anti-British movement (Indian independence movement), the Secretary General of the All India Students Federation.

Death

Chatuli died in 1984.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chatuli, Ibrahim 1894 births 1984 deaths Deobandis Indian independence activists from Bengal People from Kanaighat Upazila Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam Bangladeshi Muslims 20th-century Bengalis 20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Assam MLAs 1946–1952 East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954

Early life

Career

Death

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