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HAJI MAHOMED MOHSIN
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by Government continues to draw his one-ninth share, while all the remainder of the estate is administered by the Collector of Khulna[1] for charitable and educational purposes.

Thus this magnificent charitable Trust Fund remains after more than one hundred years, fulfilling the intentions of its founder and conferring immense benefits on his co-religionists and fellow-countrymen. Rescued by Government from dissipation and embezzlement on the part of those who should have been its faithful guardians, it has been placed in safe keeping so that for all time it may serve the great purposes for which it was designed. No man could have raised a greater and more noble monument to himself than that which bears the name of Haji Mahomed Mohsin.


  1. The District of Khulna was formed out of portions of the Districts of Jessore and the 24 Perganas 1882.