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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surnames | Imaduddin | | First Name(s) | D.D. | | Titles | Rev. | | Year of Birth | 1830? | | Year of Death | 1900 | | Entry | Son of Maulvi Sirazuddin, a Muhammadan theologian : descended from the Persian royal house and the Muhammadan Saint Kutb Jamal : born about 1830, at Panipat, near which town his family had large estates : educated at Agra Government College : became a Sufi or Muhammadan mystic : travelled about, all over India, preaching Islam : was present on behalf of Islam against Christianity in the ""Agra Controversy"" : subsequently became a teacher in the Government Normal School, Lahore : baptized at Umritsar, April 29, 1866 : ordained Deacon, 1868; Priest, 1872, by the Bishop of Calcutta: made D.D. by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1884 : invited to attend the World's Parliament on Religions in Chicago, to which he sent a paper : wrote a number of Hindustani books, the principal being a Life of Christ, Lectures on Christian evidence, commentaries in Urdu on St. Matthew's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles : died at Umritsar, Aug. 28, 1900 |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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