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 Dr. Kaukab Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza 

Dr. Kaukab Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza also known as Dr. M. Kaukab is an Indian Historian and Scholar of Urdu language


 * Personal life He was born in 1933 in Kolkata and died on 13th September 2020. He was the second son of Shehzada Meher Quder Zahid Ali Meerza son of Birjis Qadr . He is the great grandson of Wajid Ali Shah and Begum Hazrat Maha l. He is an alumnus of AMU and Ph.D from Aligrah Muslim University. He graduated with honours in economics from St. Xavier`s College, Calcutta, in the same batch as that Dr. Amartya Kumar Sen. He pursued his studies in political science at the Post Graduate College, then 3-year law course at Law College, then Urdu with a Calcutta University. Silver Medal in that subject in 1962 which also enabled him to earn the UGC Junior Fellowship for research on the "Literary & Cultural Contributions of Wajid Ali Shah" in the department of Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University. He joined the department as lecturer in 1967 and got his doctorate in 1971 for the thesis which has been published as a text book by the Bureau for Promotion of Urdu, getting highest academy cash awards of UP and Bihar for the publication in 1995.