Khandkar Manwar Hossain (30 April 193027 June 1999) was a Bangladeshi statistician. In 1950, he was among the students graduating from the first statistics course at the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public university, public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka w ...

. He was the founder of the Department of Statistics of

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Personal life

Hossain was born in 1930 at the police station of Pachuria village, Mahadevpur,

Manikganj Manikganj is a town situated in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. It is the headquarters of Manikganj District and Manikganj Sadar Upazila. Manikganj is a relatively pollution-free town of Bangladesh. The recent urbanization and highway built joining ...

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, (now Bangladesh). His parents were Moulavi Khandkar Abdul Hamid and Mosammat Akhtara Khatun. Hossain's brother was

Khandaker Delwar Hossain Khondkar Delwar Hossain (1 February 1933 – 16 March 2011) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He served as the secretary general of the party. He was elected five times as a Member of Parliament from constituency Manikganj-1 (Ghior ...

, the former Secretary General of the Bangladesh National Party. Hossain spent his childhood in Manikganj. On 25 June 1964, Hossain married Hosneara Begum Jharna (born 1942). Jharna served as a professor in the Department of Statistics in

. Together they had four sons and two daughters.

Education

In 1944, Hossain matriculated from Victoria School, Manikgonj where he excelled in mathematics and Arabic studies. He went on to study at Debendra College and the Presidency College, Calcutta, India. In 1948, Hossain received a

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(Pass) degree from

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, with subjects including mathematics, English,

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and economics. The following year, he received an

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in mathematics, also from Calcutta University. Hossain's post-graduate achievements included an

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degree (1st class) from

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in 1950 and in 1954, a

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in economics including studies at

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and

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(LSE). Sir

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, (Maurice George Kendall) was Hossain's supervisor.

Career

Hossain's work in academia spanned more than two decades. His first position was lecturer of mathematics at

. Hossain spent the majority of his career in various posts in the Department of Statistics at Rajshahi University. From 1957 to 1959 Hossain was Assistant Chief Economist in the Social Science Division at the Planning Board of the East Pakistan Government. In 1968, Hossain spent a year as visiting fellow in the Department of Social Statistics,

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Professional affiliations

Hossain was a member of the 'Inter-University Social Science Research Council' of the

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. He held the position of president in the Rajshahi and Bangladesh University Teachers' Associations. In 1977, Hossain was president of the 'Bangladesh Statistical Association'. Hossain was an elected member of the Senate, Finance Committee, and Academic Council of Rajshahi University. Hossain also attended a number of seminars and workshops in both

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and

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References

* ''Khandkar Manwar Hossain Commemorative Volume'', published August 2000, edited by Rahmatullah Imon PhD published by Professor Hosneara Hossain, Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hossain, Khandkar Manwar 1930 births 1999 deaths Bangladeshi statisticians University of Calcutta alumni University of Dhaka alumni Academic staff of the University of Dhaka Academic staff of the University of Rajshahi Academics of the University of Birmingham 20th-century Pakistani mathematicians