page_title: Azizul Haque (educator)
section_title: Contribution
hierarchical_section_title: Azizul Haque (educator) / Contribution
caption_attribution_description: English: Grant of the Dignity of a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire to Khan Bahadur , Maulvi Sir Azizul Haque.
context_page_description: Sir Muhammad Azizul Haque, KCSI, CIE, also known as Muhammad Azizul Huq or Mohammad Azizul Huque, was a Bengali lawyer, writer and public servant. He studied at Presidency College and University Law College in Calcutta. He worked to better the condition of Muslim people, primarily in the rural farmlands. This led him to work with Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Haque, Sir Abdulla Suhrawardy, Sir Salimullah and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He remained friends with many throughout his life.
  He served, from 1926, on the Bengal Legislative Council, as Education minister for Bengal, as the speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, as the Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, as the High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom, and as the member in charge, on the Viceroy's Executive Council, of the Department of Commerce, Food, Industries and Civil supplies.
context_section_description: Haque was given the title of Khan Bahadur by the British Government, appointed a CIE in 1937 knighted in the 1941 New Year Honours List, and appointed a KCSI in the June 1946 Birthday Honours List. He subsequently renounced his British honours in protest against the government, on 16 August 1946. 
  He died at his Calcutta residence on 22 March 1947
caption: Sir Azizul Haque, Order of the Indian Empire Certificate.
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