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|image = Iqbal in Afghanistan.jpg<br />
|caption = Ross Masood, {{small|(right)}} with [[Sulaiman Nadwi]] {{small|(center)}} and [[Muhammad Iqbal]] {{small|(left)}} in Afghanistan<br />
|birth_date = 15 February 1889<br />
|birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1937|7|30|1889|2|15}}<br />
|death_place = [[Bhopal]], [[Bhopal State]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
|father = [[Syed Mahmood]]<br />
|relatives = [[Syed Ahmed Khan]] (grandfather)<br />
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[[Syed]] '''Sir Ross Masood bin Mahmood Khan''' (15 February 1889 &ndash; 30 July 1937), was the [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Aligarh Muslim University]] starting in 1929.<ref name=TheGazette/><ref name=Dawn>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1102777 |title=This week 50 years ago: Tributes paid to Ross Masood |author=Peerzada Salman|website=Dawn (newspaper)|date=28 April 2014|access-date=9 October 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and career==<br />
Ross Masood was the son of [[Syed Mahmood]]. His grandfather was Sir [[Syed Ahmed Khan]].<ref name=Dawn/> 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 the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=aligarhmovement>[http://aligarhmovement.com/book/export/html/338 Syed Ross Masood - Pursuit of Excellence in Higher Education on aligarhmovement.com website] Retrieved 11 October 2019</ref><br />
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On his return from England, Masood was elected a trustee of [[Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College]] and started his own legal practice in [[Patna]]. 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]].<ref name=aligarhmovement/><br />
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From 1916 to 1928, he was Director of Public Instruction in [[Hyderabad Deccan]]. He became the [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1929. He was knighted by the British Government in the 1933 Birthday Honours list.<ref name=TheGazette>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice?service=all-notices&text=Ross+Masood Ross Masood on The London Gazette] Published 6 June 1933, Retrieved 9 October 2019</ref> Here, he introduced new courses, upgraded the syllabi and established laboratories for various science subjects.<ref>Matai-e Garan Baha Masood by [[Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman]], Souvenir Federation of Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association of North America, USA, 2003</ref><br />
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[[Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu]] published a biography of Masud in 2011.<ref>{{Citation|publisher = Anjuman Taraqqī-yi Urdū (Hind)|isbn = 978-8171601608|ol = 25056019M|location = Naʼī Dihlī|title = Rās Masʻūd|author = [[Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman]]|date = 2011|id = 817160160X}}</ref> He was the president of [[Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu]].<ref>"Ross Masud – Bahaisiyat Sadr-e Anjuman Tarraqi-e-Urdu" by [[Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman]], Hundredth Anniversary of Anjuman Tarraqi-e-Urdu Hind, New Delhi, 28 February – 2 March 2003</ref><br />
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A residential hall constructed in the year 1969 in [[Aligarh Muslim University]] is named after him.<br />
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Ross Masood was linked to the British novelist [[E. M. Forster]]. Forster's novel ''[[A Passage to India|A&nbsp;Passage to India]]'' (1924) is dedicated to Masood.<ref name=Outlook>{{cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/forster-chacha-a-personal-reminiscence/211305 |author=Scheherazade Alim|title=Forster Chacha: A Personal Reminiscence (of Ross Masood)|date=9 April 2001|website=Outlook magazine website|access-date=9 October 2019}}</ref><ref>Forster-Masood letters / edited by Jalil Ahmad Kidwai. Karachi, Pakistan : Ross Masood Education and Culture Society of Pakistan, 1984.</ref><br />
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