Mazharul Haque

He was born on 22 December 1866 in Bahpura, Patna, Bihar, into a middle-class family of small zamindars and indigo planters whose origins lay in Daudnagar in Muzaffarpur district ¹. As was then the tradition, he was taught Urdu and Persian by a maulvi, passed his middle school examination in 1871 and his matriculation in 1886 from Patna Collegiate School ¹. After Patna College and Canning College, Lucknow, he left for London in September 1888 and returned in June 1891 with a law degree ¹.

Returning to India as a barrister in 1891, he joined the judicial services, began practising as a lawyer in 1896, and by 1906 had moved his practice to Patna, the same year he was elected vice-president of the Bihar Congress Committee ¹. In 1910 and 1911 he was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council of India, and in 1911 he chaired the third Bihar State Conference, held to demand a separate Bihar state ¹.

He played an active role in the 1916 pact between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, joined Annie Besant's Home Rule Movement, and took part in the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917, when Gandhi visited his Patna home, Sikandar Manzil ¹. Active in the Khilafat Movement in 1919, he joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920; in 1921 Gandhi established the Sadaqat Ashram in Patna, from which Haque published the weekly magazine Motherland ¹. His own statement of his politics was: "Whether we are Hindus or Muslims, we are on the same boat. If we overcome, we will sink, we will sink together" ¹.

He announced his retirement from active politics in 1926 but continued to correspond with Gandhi, Maulana Azad and Nehru, and died on 2 January 1930 ¹. A residential colony in Siwan is named after him ¹.

Both articles describe him, in Rajendra Prasad's words, as a devout Muslim ^{1 2}, and record his Khilafat activism and his childhood instruction by a maulvi — but no text names a school for the man himself, and Wikidata carries no religion statement for him ³. The museum's data record therefore leaves his school unknown.

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