By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 08 Jan 2015: Barely a week after Saiyid Hamid, commonly described as North India’s Sir Syed, passed away here at the age of 94, the Muslim community in South India got a shock on Wednesday when B.S. Abdur Rahman, educationist and founder of B.S. Abdur Rahman University and commonly described as North India’s Sir Syed, died in Chennai at the age of 88.
Rahman is credited with launching 14 educational institutions and two orphanages. “He believed in empowerment of women through education. The Thassim Beevi Abdul Kader College for Women in Kilakarai, the Crescent School in Nungambakkam are examples of this,” S. Prince Arockia Doss, director for International Collaboration at the University, who joined Crescent Engineering College in 1985 as a lecturer, told The Hindu.
Saiyid Hamid rendered his services as Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and then as Chancellor of Hamdard University. A couple of decades ago, he had launched a historic education campaign (Talimee Caravan) in North India.
