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Mohammad Ferdous Khan

Bangladeshi educator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ25303028 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohammad Ferdous Khan (died March 30, 2016) was a Bangladeshi educationist. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1980 and the Independence Day Award by the Government of Bangladesh. He was the eldest son of Amanat Khan, a former member of Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Career

Khan served as the Director of Public Instruction (DPI) from October 1965 until March 1972.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mohammad Ferdous Khan” as bangladeshi educator. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1980, 1965, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-12-20. The account is most persuasive where Mohammad, Ferdous and Khan can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as bangladeshi educator. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25303028. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1980, 1965 and 1972.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohammad Ferdous Khan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.