Khan, Principal Ibrahim (1894-1978) educationist and writer, was born in a peasant family in the village of Shabaj Nagar in tangail dis...
Khan, Principal Ibrahim (1894-1978) educationist and writer, was born in a peasant family in the village of Shabaj Nagar in tangail district. Ibrahim Khan passed the Entrance examination from Pingna High School in 1912, FA from anandamohan college
in 1914 and BA (Hons) from St. Paul's CM College in 1916. He passed MA
from Calcutta University as a private candidate. He also obtained his
law degree in 1918.
In 1919, Ibrahim Khan started his career as Headmaster of Karatia
High School. Subsequently he became the Principal of the newly
established sadat college,
Karatia. In the mean time he also practised law at Mymensingh. Ibrahim
Khan participated in the Non-cooperation and Khilafat movements
(1920-1922). He was elected a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
in 1946 and of the Constituent Assembly in 1953. He was President of the
Primary Teachers’ Association from 1947 to 1971 and of the East
Pakistan Secondary Education Board from 1948 to 1952.
As a writer, Ibrahim Khan was inspired by the idea of Muslim
renaissance. In several of his books, such as Kamal Pasha (1927), Anwar
Pasha (1939), Istambul Yatrir Patra (1954), Beduiner Deshe (1956), he
wrote about Muslim heroes and about the Islamic countries that he had
visited. His other books include Byaghra Mama (1951), Rn Parishodh
(1955), etc. His memoirs, Batayan (1967), are an important record of the
Muslim society of the early years of the 20th century. He was conferred
the titles of 'Khan Sahib' and 'Khan Bahadur' by the British government
and the 'Sitara-i-Imtiaz' by the Pakistan government. He received the
Bangla Academy Award in 1963 for his contribution to drama and the
Ekushey Padak in 1976 for literature. He died in Dhaka on 29 March 1978.
[Mohammad Daniul Huq]
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