Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (13 November 1847 – 19 December 1912) was a Bengali novelist, playwright and essayist, born at Lahinipara village in Chapra union of Kumarkhali upazila, Kushtia, in British India (present-day Bangladesh). His student life passed in Kushtia, then at Padamdi in Rajbari of Faridpur and later at various schools of Krishnanagar. He spent most of his life in the service of the Nawab Estate of Faridpur and lived in Kolkata for some time.
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Mir Mosharraf Hossain's brief biography: Mir Mosharraf Hossain, the immortal author of Bishad Sindhu, renowned as the greatest Muslim literary figure of the nineteenth century, was born on 13 November 1847. Mir Mosharraf Hossain's lineage: Syed Sadullah, Mir Umar Daraj, Mir Ibrahim Hossain, Mir Moazzem Hossain, Mir Mosharraf Hossain.
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Bishad Shindhu
Bishad Sindhu is the historical novel by Mir Mosharraf Hossain composed taking the battlefield of Karbala as its material. It was published in three parts in 1885, 1887 and 1891 respectively; later these were printed in one volume.
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At the head of those who shaped the pioneers of the Muslims in nineteenth-century Bengali literature stands Mir Mosharraf Hossain, son of Lahinipara in Kumarkhali. In the age of Bankim Chandra itself he wrote for Bengali prose novels and plays that have secured a place in the pages of history as the first literary expression of the Bengali Muslim. And of them all, Bishad Sindhu remains immortal — the grief of Karbala found in it its own, effortless form in the Bengali language.
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The place where the present-day Kushtia railway station and bazaar stand is not Kushtia. That place was called Dakdoh. For a long time it was by the name Dakdoh that the place was known. Since the establishment of the subdivision, the name Dakdoh has gradually been fading away.
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Mir Mosharraf Hossain, the immortal author of Bishad Sindhu, renowned as the greatest Muslim literary figure of the nineteenth century, was born on 13 November 1847. Mir Mosharraf Hossain's lineage: Syed Sadullah – Mir Umar Daraj – Mir Ibrahim Hossain – Mir Moazzem Hossain – Mir Mosharraf Hossain.
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Mir Mosharraf Hossain (13 November 1847 – 19 December 1912) was a Bengali novelist, playwright and essayist who played a special role in the nascent age of Bengali prose in the second half of the nineteenth century. He is famous and popularly beloved for the historical work Bishad Sindhu.
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To discuss the early-phase initiatives and contributions of the Bengali Muslims in the editing, publication and running of periodicals, one must also recall the history of the beginning of literary practice in the modern age of that society. Like literature, the Bengali Muslim's debut in publishing periodicals too was belated, and its cause is tied to the same thread.
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His literary life was disinterested. He was not directly involved in political or social movements. He fought in the battle of the pen like a fearless soldier.
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Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847-1911), the 'pioneer of the Muslim renaissance in Bengali literature', was born on 13 November 1847 in Lahinipara village — then under Kushtia subdivision of Nadia district, the hallowed ground of literature and culture, now Kushtia district. Although his father Mir Moazzem Hossain was financially well-off, because of a slackness of character Mir Mosharraf Hossain could not go far in formal education.
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Mir Mosharraf Hossain, endowed with manifold talents, full of human sympathy and devoted to the good of society, was born on 13 November 1848 in the famous Syed family of Lahinipara village near Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district. His father's name was Syed Moazzem Hossain.
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When the history of modern Bengali literature written by Muslims is told, the name that comes first is Mir Mosharraf Hossain of Lahinipara, Kumarkhali. In the very age of Bankim Chandra he produced novels and plays that became the first literary expression of the Bengali Muslim voice — and among them stands immortal 'Bishad Sindhu', in which the tragedy of Karbala found its own flowing Bengali form.
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