*Nawab Mushtaq Husain Waqar-ul-Mulk Amrohvi*


During India’s First War of Independence in 1857, one of the most important personalities who awakened educational consciousness among the Muslim community was Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Mushtaq Husain Zubairi. He played a key role. In his time he was a famous Muslim politician. Recognizing his ordinary abilities in the fields of education and literature, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan made Waqar-ul-Mulk the standard-bearer of his Aligarh Movement. It was under the influence of this movement that Aligarh Muslim University was established and education spread among Indian Muslims.


Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk, famous as Mushtaq Husain the writer, was connected to Meerut, but his maternal home was in Amroha. He was born on 24 March 1841 in Meerut. He was only six months old when Mushtaq Husain’s father, Fazl Husain Zubairi, passed away. Some time later, Maqbool-un-Nisa Begum came to Amroha with her son, and in this way Waqar-ul-Mulk became part of his grandfather’s house in Mohalla Shahi Chabutra, and Amroha became his own homeland. 


Today, the government hospital, government college, and the Delhi–Moradabad railway line in Amroha are the fruits of Waqar-ul-Mulk’s efforts. In 1859, at the age of 18, Waqar-ul-Mulk became a teacher at the Tehsil School in Amroha, but this job was temporary. In 1865, Waqar-ul-Mulk’s entire focus turned toward education, and he came directly under the patronage of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and became associated with Aligarh. In 1875, Mushtaq Husain first became Nazim-e-Diwani of the state of Hyderabad. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan called Waqar-ul-Mulk from Amroha to Aligarh and entrusted him with the responsibility of continuing his famous journal _Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq_. 


When the first hostel was built for the students of the university, Waqar-ul-Mulk was made its first warden. It is noteworthy that to enrich the new generation with the ornament of education, Waqar-ul-Mulk endowed about 11 acres of land from seven villages adjoining Amroha — Mulk Pahad, Dhaki, Shekhpura, Quraish Sultanpur, Intizam Ali Khan, Pattu, etc. The record of this endowment is still preserved with Advocate Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui, President of the Nawab Mushtaq Husain Waqar-ul-Mulk Registered Trust. The entry of this endowment was recorded in the Amroha Sub-Registrar’s office on 12 June 1915. 


Mushtaq Husain Waqar-ul-Mulk passed away on 28 January 1917 in Amroha itself.

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