Nawab Bahadur Qazi Abdul Latif (1828 – 10 July 1893)[1] was a Bengali Muslim aristocrat, educator and social worker.

[4] Latif had a brother, Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafur Nassakh (1833–1889), a civil servant and a poet.

[5] He obtained the highest degree in Arabic, French and English language from Calcutta Madrassah (now the Aliah University).

While serving as the deputy magistrate of Satkhira, he witnessed the economic exploitation of peasant farmers by European indigo planters and merchants.

When there was intense anger among the Muslim community following the adoption of a proposal by the Indian Management Council in 1865, he put forward arguments in favour of amending the bill through a memorandum submitted to the British government.

It attracted the notice of successive administrations, the wants and grievances of the Indian Muslim community in regard to education, legislation and other cognate matters affecting the well-being of society.

In 1877, at the Imperial Assemblage, at Delhi, Viceroy Lord Lytton conferred upon him the title of "Khan Bahadur" and presented him with an "Empress Medal."

In 1887, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Viceroy Lord Dufferin conferred upon him the highest Muslim title of "Nawab Bahadur.

[1] The London Times, on 4 September 1893, published a short memoir of his life which ran "The skill, the firmness of resolve, and the unwearied tact and moderation with which he carried out his self-appointed task during 40 chequered years would form a noble theme for a biographer.

As a prominent personality of mid 19th century Bengal, he was the pioneer of Muslim modernization and the architect of the Muslim Renaissance, was one of those great men who appeared as saviors of their frustrated, humiliated, demoralized and disorganized fellow countrymen under colonial rule His chief contribution was in the field of education.