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Sheikh Abdur Rahim

Died in 1931

Sheikh Abdur Rahim was born in 1859 in Muhammadpur, in the Basirhat subdivision, in the 24 Parganas, the son of a schoolteacher. Motherless, he was raised by Radhamadhav Basu, a landowner of Taki and deputy magistrate, studied at Taki and then in Calcutta, and had to interrupt his studies in 1875, struck down by smallpox. A journalist, he edited the Sudhakar from 1889, then Islam Pracharak and many other periodicals, sat on the central textbook committee in Calcutta and was an examiner in Bengali at the university. He died on 14 July 1931.

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