page_title: Qazi Motahar Hossain
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Qazi Motahar Hossain / Career
caption_attribution_description: বাংলা: ১৯৫৫ সালের শীতকালে বর্ধমান হাউজ প্রাঙ্গণে ওস্তাদ আলাউদ্দিন খান, শিল্পী আব্বাসউদ্দিন ও ডঃ কাজী মোতাহের হোসেন। English: Abbasuddin, Ustad Alauddin Khan and Qazi Motahar Hossain in front of the Bordhoman house in winter 1955.
context_page_description: Qazi Motahar Hossain was a Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician, chess player, and journalist.
  Hossain was a pioneer educationalist of Bangladesh. He did original research in statistics and pioneered its education in Bangladesh both as a faculty and administrator. As one the early faculties of University of Dhaka, he was vigorously active in the cultural circles that grew around it. As a Dhaka-centric literary figure in late British India, a period marked by communality and religious sentiment, Hossain and his literary group Shikha distinguished themselves as proponents of communal harmony and rationalism. He was among the sceptical intellectuals who warned the consequences of the short-lived state of Pakistan. On several occasion, he vocally criticized Pakistani government policies, most importantly on the state language question.
caption: Hossain (right) with Abbasuddin Ahmed and Allauddin Khan (1955)
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