Syed Mahmood could have become a public figure as eminent as his father Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the educationist and social reformer who founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College (later the Aligarh Muslim University). Certainly, he had the potential for it. He knew at least seven languages ranging from English to Persian, Latin, and Sanskrit; wrote extensively in English and Urdu; and made notable contributions to the development of law and education in India.
An Icon of Judicial Resistance to British Colonialism*
Abhik Majumdar
SYED MAHMOOD: COLONIAL INDIA’S DISSENTING JUDGE by By Mohammad Nasir and Samreen Ahmed Bloomsbury, 2022, 247 pp., INR 699
October 2023, volume 47, No 10