Biography of sajjad zaheer ahmad

Indian Marxist writer and organiser (1899–1973)

Syed Sajjad Zaheer (Urdu: سید سجاد ظہیر) (5 November 1905 – 13 September 1973) was a Pakistani-Indian Urdu political writer.

He was a Marxist ideologue and a radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a member of the Communist Party of India and the Progressive Writers' Movement. Upon independence and partition, he moved to the newly created Pakistan and became a founding member of the Communist Party of Pakistan.

Early life and education

Zaheer was born in Lucknow in 1905 and was the fourth son of Syed Wazir Hasan, a judge at the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. He got his BA degree from the University of Lucknow in 1924.

Biography of sajjad zaheer ahmad khan

He then left for New College, Oxford for further studies. In his final year at Oxford, he contracted tuberculosis and was sent to a sanatorium in Switzerland. On returning to England, he was influenced by the communist leader Shapurj