Bihar Medicine

Hakeem Mohammad Kabiruddin – A 20th century academician of Unani Medicine

He founded an academic institute with hospital, named Faiz- e-Kabir, in Lahore and became the Head of Department (HOD) of Tarjuma (tarjuma is an Arabic as well as an urdu word for “translation”) at Tibbia college, New Delhi.

Later on May 16, 1917 he joined as a professor of anatomy at the Tibbia college.

Hakeem Kabiruddin established Dar al Masih in New Delhi in 1921 and in the same year he published a Tibbi journal “Risala ul Masih” which continued over a span of seven years until 1928.

Also, in 1926, he designed syllabus for the research centre at the Tibbia college of New Delhi.

Bihar Freedom Movement

Jaipal Singh Munda : Man who organised Adivasis

Jaipal Singh Munda was born in 1903 in a tribal family of Bihar. Under the guardianship of Canon Cosgrave, principal St. Paul’s School in Ranchi, he took his initial education and got baptized in 1918. Cosgrave after retirement took him to England where he got admitted to Oxford for further studies. These were the formative years of a tribal leader in him. Here he got to study with the likes of Verrier Elwin, obviously which should have some impact over his later understanding.