- Ross Masood
Sir Ross Masood (
February 15 ,1889 - 1937), was the only grandson ofSir Syed Ahmed Khan , the father ofMuslim renaissance inIndian subcontinent . Born toSyed Mahmud , he was educated at Aligarh and Oxford.ervices to Education
On his return from
England , he was elected a trustee ofMAO College and started legal practice atPatna . However, after a short time, he entered the Indian Education Service. He was headmaster of Patna high School, a professor atRavenshaw College , Cuttack (Orissa), and a fellow of Calcutta, Madras and Osmania universities. From 1916 to 1928, he was director of Public Instruction in Hyderabad. He became theVice-Chancellor ofAligarh Muslim University in 1929. Sir Ross Masood had introduced new courses and upgraded the syllabi. He established laboratories for various science subjects and appointed distinguished scholars and scientists on the staff.He and Iqbal
He was close friend to
Allama Iqbal , the poet-philosopher, who remembered him in these words when Ross Masood died.:This Moon and Sun the skies and stars lot.:Who know that this world would live or not.:The thought of Aim and Stays, my fiction’s same,:This life looks a journey sanz any aim.:Ah! the world kept not that monuments shine,:Of Mehmood and Ahmad’s miracles fine.:His death to knowledge a fall and decay,:A great wealth he was for caravan’s stay.:It moves me to weeping, the world’s cold ways,:At dawn to wail of birds, they think songs gay.:Say not, hid in patience, cure of friend’s grief,:Say not, patience solves the death’s crossword brief [http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/poetry/urdu/armaghan/translation/15.htm The late Masood (English translation of the poem)] , from Iqbal Academy Pakistan]
References
External links
* [http://www.amu.ac.in/index3.asp?sublink2id=244&sublinkid=163 Ross Masood Hall] , Aligarh Muslim University
* [http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/poetry/urdu/armaghan/translation/15.htm The late Masood (English translation of a poem)] , Iqbal Academy Pakistan
* [http://emforster.de/hypertext/template.php3?t=picview&pic=forster_and_masood Ross Masood & EM Forester] , emforester.de
* [http://www.twf.org/bio/SAKhan.html Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's Descendants (family tree)] , The Wisdom Fund
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