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Syed Hossain
Born(1888-06-23)23 June 1888
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died26 February 1949(1949-02-26) (aged 61)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial place
Cairo
Relatives

Syed Hossain (also Syud Hossain; 23 June 1888 – 26 February 1949) was an Indian journalist, an Indian independence activist, and the first Indian ambassador to Egypt in the Jawaharlal Nehru administration.[1][2]

Early life

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Syed Hossain was born in Calcutta in 1888.[3] His father, Nawab Syed Mohammad Azad Khan Bahadur (1850–1915), was the Inspector-General of Registration, Bengal.[4] His great-great-grandfather was Mir Syed Ashraf Ali Khan (d. 1829). Syed Hossain's mother was the daughter of Nawab Abdul Latif, a social reformer of Bengal.[3] Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873–1962) and Sir Hassan Suhrawardy (1888–1946), were his brother-in-laws.

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.[3]

Career

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Hossain started his journalism career early in life and became the editor of Motilal Nehru's nationalist newspaper, The Independent.[5]

Hossain wrote "Echoes from Old Dacca", published in May 1909 and "Gandhi: The Saint as Statesman" in 1937.[4][6][7]

Hossain represented India at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920 for the Near Eastern Peace settlement.[7]

In the 1930s, he moved to California. 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.[8] The university later conferred on him an honorary doctorate degree.

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.[9]

Personal life

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He is said to have fallen in love with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit but eventually went through break-up with her. She later wrote in her autobiography, The Scope of Happiness, "...while still in my teens, I had become attached to a young man, Syed Hossain (sic), whom my father had appointed editor of a newspaper he had just started, The Independent. In an era that proclaimed Hindu-Muslim unity, and belonging to a family that had close Muslim friends, I must have thought it would be perfectly natural to marry outside my religion. But in matters such as marriage the times were deeply traditional, and I was persuaded that this would be wrong."[10]

He has been buried in Al-Arafa in Cairo. He was then one of the only Indians who was buried there. A state funeral was accorded to him by the Egyptian government.[11] The road serving the tomb was later announced to be named after him.[12]

Works

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  • Gandhi, the Saint as Statesman (1936)

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Embassy of India, Cairo, Egypt : List of former Ambassadors". www.eoicairo.gov.in. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Vinodh, N. S. (29 December 2020). A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-81-947520-9-7.
  3. 1 2 3 Choudhury, Enam Ahmed (4 October 2021). "Syud Hossain and his times". The Daily Star. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 Hossain, Syud (1909). Echoes from Old Dacca. Edinburgh Press.
  5. ↑ "Syud Hossain: A forgotten ambassador brought back to life". South Asia Monitor. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  6. ↑ Hossain, Syud (1937). Gandhi: The Saint as Statesman. Suttonhouse, Limited.
  7. 1 2 "Pamphlet for Lectures by Dr. Syud Hossain". South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). 5 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Syud Hossain Pamphlet". South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). 23 July 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  9. ↑ "The Resurrection Of a Forgotten Ambassador". Valley of Words. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  10. ↑ Vinodh, N. S. (29 December 2020). A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain. Simon and Schuster. p. 40. ISBN 978-81-947520-9-7. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  11. ↑ Hossain, Syud (2001). Echoes from Old Dacca. Hakkani Publishers. p. 11. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  12. ↑ D.C, India Information Services, Washington (1949). Releases. Embassy of India. p. 8. Retrieved 25 July 2026.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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