Mir Mosharraf Hossain — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Mir Mosharraf Hossain (its text gives 1847–1911); used for entity facts only. It records his birth at Lahinipara on 13 November 1847 and his death at Padamdi on 19 December, describes him as the first major writer to emerge from the Shia society of Bengal and his father as a Bengali Shia Muslim, and makes his magnum opus Bishad Shindhu a telling of the Shia version of the Karbala martyrdom tale.