Sir Ross Masud was the only grandson of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the father of Muslim renaissance in Indian subcontinent

Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...

. Born to Syed Mahmood

Syed Mahmood

Justice Syed Mahmood was Puisne Judge of the High Court, North-Western Provinces from 1887 to 1893, after having served in the High Court in a temporary capacity as officiating judge on four previous periods since 1882...

, he was educated at Aligarh and Oxford.

Services to education

On his return from England, he was elected a trustee of MAO College

MAO College

MAO College was founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the leader of Muslim renaissance in Indian subcontinent, in 1875 at Aligarh. This later became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920....

 and started legal practice at Patna

Patna

Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

. However, after a short time, he entered the Indian Education Service. He was headmaster of Patna high School, a professor at Ravenshaw College

Ravenshaw College

Ravenshaw College is located in Cuttack, India.The college was established in 1878 for Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, a descendant of William Withers...

, Cuttack (Orissa), and a fellow of Calcutta, Madras and Osmania universities. From 1916 to 1928, he was director of Public Instruction in Hyderabad. He became the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University ,is a residential academic university, established in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as Mohammedan Angelo-Oriental College and later granted the status of Central University by an Act of the Indian Parliament in 1920...

 in 1929. Sir Ross Masood had introduced new courses and upgraded the syllabi. He established laboratories for various science subjects and appointed distinguished scholars and scientists on the staff.

Biography

Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu

Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu

Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu is an organisation founded by Maulvi Abdul Haq in 1903 in Aligarh for the promotion of Urdu language, Urdu literature and Indian Muslim cultural heritage. The organisation publishes many journals and books, and supports research and creative work in Urdu linguistics and...

 published a thorough biography on Sir Ross Masud in 2011. He was the president of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu

Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu

Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu is an organisation founded by Maulvi Abdul Haq in 1903 in Aligarh for the promotion of Urdu language, Urdu literature and Indian Muslim cultural heritage. The organisation publishes many journals and books, and supports research and creative work in Urdu linguistics and...

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Ross Masud and Iqbal

He was close friend to Allama Iqbal, the poet-philosopher, who remembered him in these words when Ross Masood died.

External links

• Ross Masood Hall, Aligarh Muslim University
• The late Masood (English translation of a poem), Iqbal Academy Pakistan
• Ross Masood & EM Forester, emforester.de
• Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's Descendants (family tree), The Wisdom Fund