[3] Maqsudullah was born in 1883 to a Bengali Muslim family of Ghazis in the village of Talgasia, Jhalakathi, then located under the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency.
[4] After completing his studies in Kachua, Ahmad instructed Maqsudullah to travel to Hindustan and enrol at the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary.
After spending some time studying in Hasanpur and Saharanpur, Maqsudullah returned to Deoband in 1916 where he received khilafat (spiritual succession) from Thanwi within a few days in the four tariqas.
He then established the Madrasa-e-Ashrafia Emdadia in his ancestral village of Talgacchia, one of the early qaumi institutions in the Greater Barisal region and based on the Dars-i Nizami curriculum.
The conference was attended by the major ulama of Greater Barisal including Maqsudullah of Talgasia who assisted in the establishment of the Mahmudia Madrasa.