Khurshid Haque

It is beneficial to include brief detail about Khurshid Haque who has two close relationship to Hamid Jamal.

Zubaida, daughter of Hafiz Jamaluddin and only sister of Hamid Jamal, she married to Khurshid Haque.

Munshi Mohammad Saeed was the farther of Khurshid Haque.

Monther of Munshi Mohammad Saeed, grandmother of Khurshid Hque was sister of Haji Tursam.

Haji Tursam was farther of Hafiz Jamaludin.

The descendants of Khurshid Haque also have had many notable achievements. He was born in 1902 and died in 1963 and wife Zubaia died in 1991.

Mohammad Abdullah Sarpanch

Grandfather of Khurshid Haque was Mohammad Abdulla Sarpanch of Kamptee.

A sarpanch is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the “Gram Panchayat” in India. The sarpanch, together with other elected members, constitute the “gram panchayat” and sarpanch is their leader. In today’s terms, he was the mayor of local village.

Mohammad Abdullah Sarpanch migrated from Amrai, an area of Mau Nath Bhanjan, district Azam Garh, Utter Predesh states of India to Kamptee in about 1857. He built house in front of Warispura mosque in Kamptee. He has also built Warispura mosque in 1860, the first ever mosque of Kamptee. He was caretaker of mosque. He provided financial and other help in settling down the people migrating to kamptee, for that purpose he purchased five houses. He would give them free to the settlers until they found their own accommodation. He died in 1905.

Munshi Mohammad Saeed

Munshi Mohammad Saeed son of Mohammad Abdullah Sarpanch, was born in April 30 1875 in Kamptee. He had three children Kurshid Haque, Rabia and Mohammad Yousuf. He is known more as a poet than for any other things. He used to publish his poetry in literary books and magazines all over India. He is recognized as the first Sahibe Deewan poet (a poet who has written his verses using all Urdu alphabets from Alif to Ya as radeef – the wors/phrase that is repeated at the end of the second line in every couplet) in the Central Province (CP), an area now-a-days known as Maharastra and part of Madhiya Pardesh in India. A couple of his poetical works have been published both in India and Pakistan one of them under title “Armaghan-e-jadid urf Deewan-e-Saeed”. He was co-founder of Madrasah Sarajul Momineen in 1917 which is still a popular place for religious education. A student of Urdu literature at Nagpur University, India, Abdul Hamid Patel completed Ph D thesis on Munshi Mohammad Saeed under supervision of Dr Arshad Jamal in 1998. Munshi Mohammad Saeed also inherited the title Sarpanch from his father. He did on April 25 1930.

In 1817, the English forces in the battle of Stabardi, Nagpur defeated Bhosla Raja. Following an agreement reached between the two parties in 1818, the English forces got the rights to deploy their forces in around Nagpur. A group came to Kamptee and camped across the river Kanhan. Initially the Camp was named as Camp “T” and later on it became proper noun as “Kamptee”. The English colonel in charge of the group liked this place and recommended to his superiors to make it a cantonment area, which was accepted. After that, the population of the English forces and civilians started to increase because of business and job opportunities in Kamptee. Englishmen wanted civilian participation in the cantonment area activities and created a Cantonment Board on which Munshi Mohammad Saeed was nominated as the first civilian representatives. In 1962, he was elected as member of the board. Membership of the Cantonment Board was considered as honor in those days. One year later, the civilian affairs part of the board was separated and assigned to a new entity called Kamptee Municipality to handle civic amenities and problem. Munshi Mohammad Saeed was nominated again as member of the Kamptee Municipality. This shows his popularity and acceptance as leader of the Muslim community of Kamptee.