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Mohammad Najibar Rahman

Died in 1923

Mohammad Najibar Rahman was born in 1860 in Charbeltail, in the Shahjadpur sub-district. Trained at the normal school of Dhaka, he worked in an indigo factory in Jalpaiguri, was for a time a postmaster, then taught for almost his whole life, in Sirajganj, in Salanga and at the Rajshahi madrasa. In 1892 he opened a Quranic school in his village, which later became a girls' school where his wife taught. Honoured with the title of Sahityaratna, he died on 18 October 1923 in Hati Qumrul, near Raiganj.

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