Mudassir Hossain | |
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Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1937–1946 | |
Succeeded by | Mohammad Abdur Rasheed |
Constituency | Birbhum |
Personal details | |
Born | Burdwan district,Bengal Presidency |
Awards | Khan Bahadur,C.I.E |
Khan Bahadur Mudassir Hossain was a Bengali politician.
Hossain was born into a Bengali Muslim family in Rampurhat,Birbhum district,Bengal Presidency. [1]
Hossain was a member of the Bengal Legislative Council in 1921. He was awarded Khan Bahadur and CIE by the British Raj. Hossain contested in the 1937 Bengal elections and won a seat at the Bengal Legislative Assembly. [2] He was opposed to Marxism and remained in India after the Partition of Bengal (1947), [3] although he reportedly expressed desire for all of Bengal to join the Dominion of Pakistan. [4]