Muhsinuddin Ahmad Dudu Miyan

Muhsinuddin Ahmad Dudu Miyan was one of the great leader of Faraizi movement. He was born in 1819 in a village of madaripur of greater Faridpur district. His fond name was Dudu Miyan. Dudu Miyan succeeded of the Faraizi movement at the death of his father Haji Shariatullah.

Early life

Dudu Miyan spent AbOUT five years for schooling at Mecca. At the age of 19 he was called back due to his father's illness. It was very critical time of serious confrontation of the Faraizis with the landlords, European indigo planters, conservative Ulama and the Sabiqi or the non-Faraizi Muslim society, who began to attack the Faraizis individually as well as in combination, in which the government sided with them. Though less learned than his father, he was youthful, energetic and astutely diplomatic. For all practical purposes he inaugurated an age of his own in the hapless rural society of Faridpur.

Death

After the break up of the sepoy revolt in 1857, the government arrested him and kept him under detention at the Alipore Jail near Calcutta till he was set free in 1861. He died at Dhaka in 1862.

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