This website is about the family of Hamid Jamal son of Hafiz Jamaluddin. He was the only son of his father’s third wife. He was born in 1915. The month and date was written in his father’s business book (general ledger) that was lost, thus the only birth year is known as 1915.

In Islam any name that describes the attribute of Allah should precede with “Abdul”, meaning “slave of”. The word Hamid is an Arabic word that means “Praiseworthy” which is an attribute of Allah. So his name should be Abdul Hamid Jamal. He was also a teacher by profession so people used to call him Master Abdul Hamid Jamal. He was a graduate of Master of Art degree in Parsian. He was enrolled in Master of Art degree in Urdu, a two year program, completed first year but could not finish second year to get degree.

Hafiz Jamaluddin was one of four sons of Haji Tursam of Amrai (pronounced as Am-raa-ee) a place in Mau (Mau Nathbhanjan) district Azamgarh of Utter Pradesh state, India, Hafiz Jamaluddin migrated to Kamptee, district Nagpur of Maharashtra states, India around 1875. He was very successful businessman in and around Kamptee area and a religious person. He has gone through many challenges in life, multiple migrations, two wives death, 11 kids and loss of kids during his life time.

Three other brothers of Hafiz Jamaluddin are Abdullah, Abdul Waris and Mohammad Ismail. Later two settled in Kamptee. Abdullah along with son Mohammad Ali moved to Saudi Arabia in early 1900 and settled there, by now they must have become fully Arab and Arab citizens, it has been almost 4 -5 generations now.

Hafiz Jamaluddin had three kids from third wife Mariam, first born Zubaida, 2nd Abdul Hamid Jamal and third Ayesha. She died at the age of 18. Hafiz Jamaluddin had 9 kids (6 girls and 3 boys) from first two wives, who died one after another before marrying Mariam.

Hafiz Jamaluddin died in August 1932 and his wife, mother of Abdul Hamid Jamal, Mariam died on June 28 1967.

Abdul Hamid Jamal had nine sons with wife khadija. All of them were well educated and well settled in Kamptee near Nagpur and New Delhi India. He died on May 4th 1980. Wife Khaija Jamal died in 2002. Following is chronological order of their sons.

1. Mohammad Aslam Jamal

2. Dr. Arshad Jamal

3. Salimuz Zafar Jamal

4. Dr. Rasheeduz Zafar Jamal

5. Naveeduz Zafar Jamal

6. Mohsin Jamal

7. Ahsan Jamal

8. Anjum Jamal

9. Naimuz Zafar Jamal

Zubaida married to Khurshid Haque son of Munshi Mohammad Sayeed. Munshi Mohammad Sayeed was cousin brother of Hafiz Jamaluddin. Khurshid Haque died in Kamptee in 1962. His remaining family members, wife Zubaida, sons Anisuddin Kurshid, Qamarudding, Badruddin, Farzana, Bashiruddin, Zahiruddin migrated to Pakistan in 1964. Two older daughters Mehrun and Akhtar did not migrate and stayed with their husbands in Kamptee and Nagpur respectively. Anisuddin Khurshid was well known personality of Pakistan in the field of library science, graduated from USA, died in 2008. He was also awarded with Pakistan’s highest civilian award.

Zahiruddin Khurshid son of Khurshid Haque moved to Pakistan and settled in Dallas, TX, USA and wrote his autobiography available on Amazon called “Kamptee to Dallas”.

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Khurshid Haque

It is beneficial to include brief detail about Khurshid Haque who has two close relationship to Hamid Jamal.

Zubaida, daughter of Hafiz Jamaluddin and only sister of Hamid Jamal, she married to Khurshid Haque.

Munshi Mohammad Saeed was the farther of Khurshid Haque.

Monther of Munshi Mohammad Saeed, grandmother of Khurshid Hque was sister of Haji Tursam.

Haji Tursam was farther of Hafiz Jamaludin.

The descendants of Khurshid Haque also have had many notable achievements. He was born in 1902 and died in 1963 and wife Zubaia died in 1991.

Mohammad Abdullah Sarpanch

Grandfather of Khurshid Haque was Mohammad Abdulla Sarpanch of Kamptee.

A sarpanch is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the “Gram Panchayat” in India. The sarpanch, together with other elected members, constitute the “gram panchayat” and sarpanch is their leader. In today’s terms, he was the mayor of local village.

Mohammad Abdullah Sarpanch migrated from Amrai, an area of Mau Nath Bhanjan, district Azam Garh, Utter Predesh states of India to Kamptee in about 1857. He built house in front of Warispura mosque in Kamptee. He has also built Warispura mosque in 1860, the first ever mosque of Kamptee. He was caretaker of mosque. He provided financial and other help in settling down the people migrating to kamptee, for that purpose he purchased five houses. He would give them free to the settlers until they found their own accommodation. He died in 1905.

Munshi Mohammad Saeed

Munshi Mohammad Saeed son of Mohammad Abdullah Sarpanch, was born in April 30 1875 in Kamptee. He had three children Kurshid Haque, Rabia and Mohammad Yousuf. He is known more as a poet than for any other things. He used to publish his poetry in literary books and magazines all over India. He is recognized as the first Sahibe Deewan poet (a poet who has written his verses using all Urdu alphabets from Alif to Ya as radeef – the wors/phrase that is repeated at the end of the second line in every couplet) in the Central Province (CP), an area now-a-days known as Maharastra and part of Madhiya Pardesh in India. A couple of his poetical works have been published both in India and Pakistan one of them under title “Armaghan-e-jadid urf Deewan-e-Saeed”. He was co-founder of Madrasah Sarajul Momineen in 1917 which is still a popular place for religious education. A student of Urdu literature at Nagpur University, India, Abdul Hamid Patel completed Ph D thesis on Munshi Mohammad Saeed under supervision of Dr Arshad Jamal in 1998. Munshi Mohammad Saeed also inherited the title Sarpanch from his father. He did on April 25 1930.

In 1817, the English forces in the battle of Stabardi, Nagpur defeated Bhosla Raja. Following an agreement reached between the two parties in 1818, the English forces got the rights to deploy their forces in around Nagpur. A group came to Kamptee and camped across the river Kanhan. Initially the Camp was named as Camp “T” and later on it became proper noun as “Kamptee”. The English colonel in charge of the group liked this place and recommended to his superiors to make it a cantonment area, which was accepted. After that, the population of the English forces and civilians started to increase because of business and job opportunities in Kamptee. Englishmen wanted civilian participation in the cantonment area activities and created a Cantonment Board on which Munshi Mohammad Saeed was nominated as the first civilian representatives. In 1962, he was elected as member of the board. Membership of the Cantonment Board was considered as honor in those days. One year later, the civilian affairs part of the board was separated and assigned to a new entity called Kamptee Municipality to handle civic amenities and problem. Munshi Mohammad Saeed was nominated again as member of the Kamptee Municipality. This shows his popularity and acceptance as leader of the Muslim community of Kamptee.