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May 11, 2012 · Syed Mahmood managed to get a medical seat instead of law, at the University of Hong Kong. His father gave him full support and a hearty send off from the Arau railway station in 1939. A whole new world awaited Syed Mahmood in Hong Kong.
Justice Syed Mahmood (also spelled Sayyid Mahmud; 24 May 1850 – 8 May 1903) was Puisne Judge of the High Court, in the North-Western Provinces of British India from 1887 to 1893, after having served in the High Court in a temporary capacity as officiating judge on four previous periods since 1882. He was the first Indian jurist to be ...
Mahmood made history during his six-year stint as a judge of the Allahabad High Court (HC) from 1887 to 1893, which was the highest position a “native” could hold in the British Government of...
- Mohammad Nasir
Apr 5, 2022 · Syed Mahmood and Tryst with Muslim Law. Mahmood is a forgotten pioneer of the transformation of Muslim law in modern South Asia. He was the first Muslim to be appointed as a judge (1882), of the High Courts of British India, and that at the comparatively young age of 32.
Jun 11, 2022 · 3 min read. These two hundred pages on India’s first Muslim judge of Allahabad High Court who dared to dissent and chose to resign from the high chair of Judiciary, instead of prostrating before...
May 13, 2022 · Authors Mohammad Nasir, an assistant professor, and Samreen Ahmed, a legal researcher at the Aligarh Muslim University, detail how Justice Mahmood’s tenure as a high court judge showed that ‘law without a conscience was merely a facade for the perpetration of injustice’.
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May 10, 2022 · While it remains a bit of a mystery as to why Mahmood did not fully complete his Cambridge degree, Syed Mahmood successfully qualified as a barrister when he returned to India on 26 November 1872. At that time, his father Sir Syed was posted as the judge of the small causes court in Banaras.
