Syed Shamsul Huda

Sir Syed Shamsul Huda KCIE (1862–1922) was a Muslim political leader of the Bengal Executive Council.

He became an iconic British Indian Muslim scholar, writer, lawyer, powerful leader, and profound politician in the twentieth century.

That was a budget created for the development of colleges, hospitals, and other institutions in Calcutta that was spending East Bengal's revenue.

The best of Colleges, Hospitals, and other institutions were founded in or near about the Capital of India.... [the] neglect of years and cannot be blamed if [we] require large sums to put our house in order.

[5] He also mentioned on another occasion: They [Hindus] have benefited for very many years out of the revenues of Eastern Bengal and have paid very little for its progress and advancement ...[5] Authority selected Huda as a fellow of Calcutta University in 1902.

[7] Rewarded as the nawab in 1913, KCIE in 1916[8] and the second judge in Calcutta High Court in 1917 from the East Bengal Muslim justice.

[9] Huda became the first British Indian Muslim president of the reoriented legislative council of East and West Bengal in 1921.

[9] ...He worked round the clock to improve the existential condition of his fellow Muslims during his long and distinguished career as a jurist, leader and politician.

[10] Syed Shamsul Huda created accommodations founding Carmichael Hostel in Calcutta for rural university-going Muslim students of Bengal.

The opening ceremony was postponed until 1926 due to the First World War when Abul Kasem Fazl-ul-Haq became education minister of the united province.

Huda founded Gokarna Syed Waliuallah High School naming his same-aged uncle on his paternal property in 1915.

The Calcutta Weekly Notes wrote of his death: Sir Shamsul Huda has passed away at the time when his countrymen have stood in the greatest need of that happy combination of qualities which make leadership and which he possessed in a pre-eminent degree.

Gokarna Nawab Bari Complex, Brahmanbaria
Tagore Law Lecture - "The Principles of the Law of Crimes in British India"
Executive Council: Thomas Gibson-Carmichael (seated) and (standing left to right) Huda, Frederick William Duke , and P C Lion Chitty
Executive Council (1912–1917): Thomas Gibson-Carmichael on the chair and standing from the right Huda, N D Beatson-Bell and P C Lion Chitty