
The Nawab and Lord Hobart
Nawab Humayun Jah (aka Mubarak Ali Khan II) was the Nawab of Bengal
for 14 years. He died when he was 28.
In 1873, Lord Hobart, the then governor of Madras State asked the Nawab
for his ‘bungalow’ in Madras, to house a school for Muslim girls. The Nawab
readily agreed. And so the Hobart (Govt) School was born. This is where
progressive...