Author · Bangladesh
Kaikobad
Died in 1951
Kaikobad is the pen name of Mohammad Kazem Ali Qureshi, born in 1857 in the village of Agla, near Nawabganj, in the district of Dhaka, the son of a lawyer at the district judge's court. He studied at Pogose School, at St Gregory's and then at the Dhaka madrasa, did not sit the examinations and returned to his village as a postmaster, until retirement. In 1932 he presided over the main session of the Bengali Muslim literature conference in Calcutta, and he died in Dhaka on 21 July 1951.