Itrat Husain Zuberi

Itrat Husain Zuberi (Bengali: ইতরাত হোসেন জুবেরী) (1910 – December 1964) was a noted educationist of Pakistan. He started his educational career as a teacher in East Pakistan. He served in various capacities such as professor, Principal, Vice Chancellor, Education Advisor and Member, Executive Board of UNESCO till his retirement. Dr Itrat is the first Indian to have the distinction of being elected a Carnegie Fellow at Oxford.[1]

Education

Zuberi was M.A., Ph D, D.F. R.S.I. He was educated at St John's college Agra, Allahabad University, Merton college, Oxford, and the University of Edinburgh where he worked under the renowned professor, Sir Herbert JC.[2]

Professor and Principal Islamia College, Calcutta (1938–1953)

Zuberi joined the Bengal Senior Education Service in 1938 as senior professor of English, Islamia College, an undergraduate college of the prestigious University of Calcutta before the establishment of Rajshahi University or University of Rajshah. Zuberi served Islamia College as a senior professor and Principal until he took the charge as a vice chancellor of Rajshahi University of Bangladesh in 1953.

Vice Chancellor, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi (1953–1957)

In 1953, the Government of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) adopted the Rajshahi University Act 1953, which was published through a gazette notification on 16 June 1953. The Governor of East Bengal was the chancellor and Zuberi, the Principal of Islamia college was appointed the first Vice-chancellor of the university. Dr Itrat worked together with another patron of learning, Mr. Madar Baksh and prepared a plan for the full-fledged university. All intermediate and degree colleges and also the colleges of vocational and technical education of Rajshahi and Khulna divisions were affiliated to the newly established university.[3][4] Dr Itrat served the Rajshai University as Vice-Chancellor from 7 June 1953 till 30 September 1957.[5]

Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education, Pakistan

After creation of India and Pakistan in 1947, Zuberi continued to serve east Pakistan till 1957 when he got the assignment of Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education Karachi, Government of Pakistan.

Member, Executive Board of UNESCO

In 1957 Zuberi was appointed member of the Executive Board of UNESCO during its 49th session held in Paris, on 19 December 1957. The Executive Board adopted the agenda (Item 2) whereby resignation of Dr Momtazuddin Ahmed (Pakistan) was accepted under paragraph 4 of Article V of UNESCO's Constitution and appointed Zuberi, Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education Karachi to replace him until the end of his term of office.[6]

Zuberi (or Juberi) belongs to Kamboh lineage.

Publication

There are several research[7] done by D. Itrat:

• The dogmatic and mystical theology of John Donne (1938, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge & New York: Macmillan)
• The technique of T. S. Eliot and the "Portrait of a lady" (1945, London & New York: Longmans-Green)
• The mystical element in the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century (1948, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd)
• English prose, 1600-1660 (1965, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston) (with: Victor Harris)
• Poems (1974, Pakistan: s.n.)

See also

• Zubairi

Notes

1. slamic Culture: The Hyderabad Quarterly Review, 1971, p 400, Islam; The Pakistan Year Book & Who's who, 1949, p 870, Saiyed Tahammul Hussain - Pakistan; Who's who in Pakistan, 1963, p 142, edited by Ali Mohammad Barque - Pakistan.
2. Who's who in Pakistan, 1963, p 142, edited by Ali Mohammad Barque.
3. See: BANGLAPEDIA: University of Rajshahi; See also: Archived 25 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
4. See also: Biographical Studies – 8, My Brother, Preface, 1987, p iv, Fatima Jinah, Editor: Sharif Al Muhammad; Quaid-e-Azam Academy, Karachi.
5. See: University of Rajshahi: .
6. U. N. E. S. C. O. Executive Board, Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Executive Board of UNESCO at its 49th Session held in Paris on 19 December 1957; U. N. E. S. C. O. Executive Board, Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Executive Board of UNESCO at its 52nd Session held in Paris on 5 January 1959
7. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHusain%2C+Itrat.&qt=hot_author

References

• Tarikh-i-Qaum Kamboh, 1996, Chaudhry Muhammad Yusuf Hasan
• English prose, 1600-1660 - by Victor Harris, Itrat Husain