Mahmud Husain

Mahmud Husain
Minister for Education
In office
4 February 1953 – 17 April 1953
Prime MinisterKhawaja Nazimuddin
Preceded byFazlur Rahman
Succeeded byIshtiaq Hussain Qureshi
Minister for Kashmir Affairs
In office
26 November 1951 – 17 April 1953
Prime MinisterKhawaja Nazimuddin
Preceded byMushtaq Ahmed Gurmani
Succeeded byShuaib Qureshi
Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions
In office
24 October 1950 – 24 October 1951
Prime MinisterLiaquat Ali Khan
Deputy Minister for Defense, Foreign Affairs and Finance
In office
3 February 1949 – 24 October 1950
Prime MinisterLiaquat Ali Khan
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office
10 August 1947 – 24 October 1954
ConstituencyEast Bengal
Personal details
Born(1907-07-05)5 July 1907
Died12 April 1975(1975-04-12) (aged 67)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Political partyMuslim League
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Mahmud Husain Khan (5 July 1907 – 12 April 1975) was a Pakistani historian, educationist, and politician, known for his role in the Pakistan Movement, and for pioneering the study of social sciences.[1] He served as Minister for Kashmir Affairs from 1951 to 1953 and Minister for Education in 1953, as well as minister of state in Pakistan's first cabinet under Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.

As a member of the country's first Constituent Assembly, Husain served on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's parliamentary committee for fundamental rights and minorities. After becoming federal minister under Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin, he refused to rejoin the cabinet when Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad dismissed the Nazimuddin ministry. He played a key role in authoring the draft Constitution of 1954, but quit politics in protest when the assembly was dissolved before it was passed.

Returning to academia, Husain served as vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, resigning in 1963 when Ayub Khan's military dictatorship sought disciplinary action against student protestors.[2] A proponent of greater rights for East Bengal and later East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, Husain emerged a vocal but unsuccessful critic of West Pakistan's policies towards its eastern wing.[3][4]

He later served as vice-chancellor of University of Karachi until his death in 1975. He founded Jamia Milia Islamia, Malir, modelled on the university of the same name in India founded by his brother, Zakir Husain. University of Karachi renamed its library in his memory in 1976.

  1. ^ "Mahmud Hussain profile". Council of Social Sciences Pakistan (magazine website). April 2003. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. ^ Alam, Mahboobul (13 February 1963). "Mahmud Husain resigns". Dawn.
  3. ^ Callahan, John P. (18 July 1954). "PAKISTAN'S CHIEF PUTS HOPE IN ISLAM; Prime Minister Says Moslem Religion Provides Positive Ideology Against Reds". New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Banglapedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).