Maulana Mohammad Ali College

Maulana Mohammad Ali College is a state college in Kagmari, Tangail, Bangladesh.[1][2] It is often referred to as M. M. Ali College.[3] The college is located at Kagmari near Tangail city. This is a government college affiliated with National University of Bangladesh. Professor Md. Shahiduzzaman Mian is the principal of the college.[4]

## History

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Maulana Mohammad Ali College was established in 1957 by Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and was named after Mohammad Ali Jouhar, an important leader of the Khilafat movement of British India. The school was initially located at an used government office. In 1958, in the aftermath of the Bengali language movement, a martyr's memorial was erected on campus.[5] During the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising one student was killed and ten were injured on 4 February when the East Pakistan Rifles opened fire on a demonstration.[6] During the Bangladesh Liberation war, a former professor of the college, Abdul Khaleque, was in the local pro-Pakistan militia, the Razakars. He is responsible for war crimes and forcibly converting Hindus into Muslims.[7]

In 1975 the government of Bangladesh nationalised the college.[1]

## Notable people

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* Rafiq Azad began his career teaching Bengali at the college from 1968 to 1972[8]

## References

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1. ^ a b Hasan, Syed Mehedi. "Maulana Mohammad Ali College". Banglapedia. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
2. ^ "Ali College lift Souhardo Cup". The Daily Star. 9 November 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
3. ^ "Govt. M M Ali College, Tangail". Govt. M M Ali College, Tangail.
4. ^ "National University :: College Details". www.nubd.info. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
5. ^ Mamud, Hayat (1994). "This History of the Observance of Ekushey". In Islam, Syed Manzoorul (ed.). Essays on Ekushey, the language movement, 1952. Bangla Academy. p. 82\. ISBN 984-07-2968-3.
6. ^ "A Brief Triumph for Student Power". Minerva. 7 (4): 79. Summer 1969. JSTOR 41822666.
7. ^ "My family's close encounter with death in 1971". The Daily Star. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
8. ^ Shamsuzzaman, Abdul Fazal (1992). Who's Who in Bangladesh Art Culture Literature (1901-1991). Tribhuj Prakashani. p. 215\. OCLC 28114771.

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