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Golam Mostafa

Died in 1964

Golam Mostafa was born in 1897 in Manoharpur, in the thana of Shailkupa, Jessore district, son and grandson of folk poets. A graduate of Ripon College in 1918 and of David Hare Training College in 1922, he taught from 1920 and was the first Muslim headmaster of the Ballygunge demonstration school, before ending his career as head of the Faridpur district school, in 1949. Secretary of the East Bengal language reform committee, he supported Urdu in 1952 as the state language of Pakistan. He died in Dhaka on 13 October 1964.

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