Syud Hossain

Syud Hossain was born in Calcutta in the then Bengal Presidency, British India in 1888.[5] His father, Nawab Syud Mahomed Khan Bahadur (1850–1915), was the Inspector-General of Registration, Bengal.[6] His great-great-grandfather was Mir Ashraf Ali Khan (d. 1829).[1] Syud Hossain's mother was the daughter of Nawab Abdul Latif, a social reformer of Bengal.[5] Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873–1962) and Sir Hassan Suhrawardy (1888–1946), were his brother-in-laws.[1]

Hossain passed his Entrance Examination in 1904 and F.A. in 1906 from the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh. He then joined the Bengal Civil Service as a Sub-Deputy Collector in Calcutta but he soon went to England to pursue further education in 1909.[1][5]

Hossain started his journalism career early in life and became the editor of Motilal Nehru's nationalist newspaper, The Independent.[7]

Hossain wrote "Echoes from Old Dacca", published in May 1909 and "Gandhi: The Saint as Statesman" in 1937.[6][8][9]

Hossain represented India at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920 for the Near Eastern Peace settlement.[9]

In the 1930s, he moved to California.[1] He served as a lecturer at the University of Southern California's Department of History as a visiting faculty lecturer. He taught two courses entitled "India's Civilization" and "Islamic Civilization" in the summer of 1934.[10] The university later conferred on him an honorary doctorate degree.[1]

When Hossain left the United States for India in 1946, a farewell dinner was organized for him at the Ceylon India Inn in New York City where the guests included Ragini Devi, Habib Rahman, and Indrani Rahman.[11]