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Mir Mosharraf Hossain

Died in 1911

Mir Mosharraf Hossain was born on 13 November 1847 in Lahinipara, in the Kushtia district, the son of a landowner. Educated at home in Arabic and Persian, he could not complete his schooling in Calcutta, and was managing his father's lands when he sent articles from the provinces to the Sangbad Prabhakar and the Grambarta Prakashika. He then served the estate of the nawabs of Faridpur and, from 1885, that of Delduar, lived in Calcutta from 1903 to 1909 and was buried at Padamdi; his death is dated December 1911 or 1912 depending on the sources.

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