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<a name="scalar-inline-media" data-align="right" data-annotations="" class="inline wrap" data-size="small" data-caption="description" resource="media/forster-with-masood" href="https://scalar.lehigh.edu/a-passage-to-india-1924/media/forster%20masood.jpg"></a>Syed Ross Masood was the grandson of an important reformist Muslim educator, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. He received English education at Oxford (where Forster met him for the first time in 1908), and later went on toe serve the institution his grandfather founded, the Muslim Anglo-Indian College (today Aligarh Muslim University). <br /><br />Forster and Masood developed an intense friendship, and spent a fair amount of time together on Forster's first trip to India. It was through Masood that Forster was exposed to the depth of Indo-Islamic historical culture (on thinks of the many invocations of figures like Alamgir [Aurangzeb] in the novel). It was also through Masood's circle of friends that Forster likely was exposed to the deeply felt hostility to British rule prevalent amongst young Indians in the 1920s. <br /><br />Biographers such as P.N. Furbank and others have suggested that Forster and Masood's relationship may have extended beyond friendship, and the published correspondence between Forster and Masood (see <em>The Forster-Masood Letters </em>[1984]) is replete with over-the-top statements of affection. However, the evidence they may have had a sexual relationship remains sketchy. <br />
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Syed Ross Masood
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<a name="scalar-inline-media" data-size="small" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" class="inline" href="https://scalar.lehigh.edu/a-passage-to-india-1924/media/forster masood.jpg" resource="media/forster-with-masood"></a>Syed Ross Masood was the grandson of an important reformist Muslim educator, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. He received English education at Oxford (where Forster met him for the first time in 1908), and later went on toe serve the institution his grandfather founded, the Muslim Anglo-Indian College (today Aligarh Muslim University). <br /><br />Forster and Masood developed an intense friendship, and spent a fair amount of time together on Forster's first trip to India. It was through Masood that Forster was exposed to the depth of Indo-Islamic historical culture (on thinks of the many invocations of figures like Alamgir [Aurangzeb] in the novel). It was also through Masood's circle of friends that Forster likely was exposed to the deeply felt hostility to British rule prevalent amongst young Indians in the 1920s. <br /><br />Biographers such as P.N. Furbank and others have suggested that Forster and Masood's relationship may have extended beyond friendship, and the published correspondence between Forster and Masood (see <em>The Forster-Masood Letters </em>[1984]) is replete with over-the-top statements of affection. However, the evidence they may have had a sexual relationship remains sketchy. <br />
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From Wikipedia:
"Ross Masood was the son of Syed Mahmood. His grandfather was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. He had three children: one daughter Nadira Begum and two sons Anwar Masood and Akbar Masood (1917–1971). Ross Masood was educated at Aligarh Muslim University and Oxford University.
On his return from England, Masood was elected a trustee of Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College and started his own legal practice. He then entered the Indian Education Service as headmaster of the Patna High School, a professor at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa), and one of the founders of Osmania University.
From 1916 to 1928, he was Director of Public Instruction in Hyderabad Deccan. He became the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1929.
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