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{{short description|Indian scholar and historian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox writer 
| name = Maulvi Mohammad Zakaullah
| imagesize =
| caption =
| pseudonym = Munshi Zakaullah Dehlvi
| birth_date = 20 April 1832
| birth_place = Delhi, [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1910|11|7|1832|4|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Delhi, British India
| alma_mater =[[Zakir Husain Delhi College]] (Delhi College)
| occupation = Writer<br>Translator<br>professor
| period = [[Mughal era]], [[British Indian]]
| nationality = [[British Indian]]
}}

'''Maulvi Mohammad Zakaullah''' or '''Munshi Zakaullah''' (1832–1910) was a British Indian Urdu writer and translator. He is widely remembered as the writer of ''Tarikh-e-Hindustan'', the 10 volume compilation of history of India in Urdu.<ref name=abdulqadir />

==Early life and education==
Zakaullah was born on 20 April 1832 in Delhi. His father Mohammad Sanaullah was the tutor of one of the princes in the Mughal courts.<ref name=andrews /> He commended his studies under his grand father Hafiz Mohammad Bakaullah and got his education in the [[Zakir Husain Delhi College|Delhi College]] under professor [[Ramchundra]], who was a distinct mathematical teacher.<ref name=abdulqadir /> His other teachers include [[Mamluk Ali Nanautawi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Syed Ahmad |author1-link=Syed Ahmad Khan |editor1-last=Shahjahanpuri |editor1-first=Abu Salman |editor1-link= Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri|title=Tazkirah Khānwāda-e-Wali'ullāhi |publisher=[[University of Sindh]] |location=[[Hyderabad, Sindh]] |page=456 |language=Urdu}}</ref>

==Career==
He started his service as a scholar at the Delhi College and continued to serve in the education department till he was 55.<ref name=abdulqadir /> At Delhi College he also headed the Vernacular Translation Society in translating texts in western sciences, history and philosophy into Urdu.<ref name=scroll/> In 1855 he was appointed Deputy Inspector of Schools of Bulandshahar and Muradabad.<ref name=earlyurdu /> In 1866 he was then appointed the head master for the Normal School in Delhi.<ref name=tahseenrana /> He was then transferred to the [[Muir Central College]] in Allahabad in 1872 to teach western science in the medium of urdu. He retired on pension from Allahabad in 1877. Shortly before his retirement he was awarded the title of Khan Bahadur and Shams-ul-Ulema. After his retirement he spent some time in Aligarh working for the literary movement of [[Syed Ahmad Khan|Sir Syed Ahmad Khan]] and his friend Maulvi Samiullah.<ref name=abdulqadir /> He was an early supporter of the [[Aligarh Movement]] and translated works for [[Scientific Society of Aligarh|Scientific Society]] along with his contemporaries [[Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi|Maulvi Nazir Ahmad]] and [[Altaf Hussain Hali]].<ref name=andrews /><ref name=cambridge />

He died at the age of 78 on 7 November 1910 at Delhi. He was survived by his son Inayatullah Delhvi who was also an Urdu writer and translator.<ref name=abdulqadir />

==Literary work==
The literary work of Maulvi Zakaullah include.<ref name=rekhta />
* ''Aain-e-Qaisari''
* ''Falsafa-e-Imsal aur Mauntakh-ul-Imsal''
* ''Iqbalnama-e-Akabari''
* ''Karzan Nama''
* ''Mabadiul Insha''
* ''Mahasin-ul-Akhlaq''
* ''Makarim-ul-Akhlaq''
* ''Musalman Aur Science''
* ''Risala Majalis-e-Munazira''
* ''Risala Taqvim-ul-Lisan''
* ''Sawaneh Umari''
* ''Taqveem-ul-Lisan''
* ''Tareekh-e-Hindustan''
* ''Tareekh-e-Arooz Ahd-e-Saltanat Englishia Hind''

==References==
{{reflist|refs=

<ref name=scroll>{{Cite web|last=Kumar|first=Anu|title=Thomas Macaulay won the debate on how to shape Indian education. So who were the losers?|url=https://scroll.in/magazine/821605/thomas-macaulay-and-the-debate-over-english-education-in-india|access-date=22 December 2020|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name=andrews>{{Cite book|last=C F Andrews|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173993|title=Zaka Ullah Of Delhi|date=1929}}</ref>

<ref name=tahseenrana>{{Cite book|last=Tahseen|first=Rana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cFydAAAAMAAJ&q=normal+school+delhi+zaka+ullah|title=Education and Modernisation of Muslims in India|date=1993|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|isbn=978-81-7100-495-9|language=en}}</ref>

<ref name=earlyurdu>{{Cite book|last=Khan|first=Javed Ali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQpuAAAAMAAJ&q=zaka+ullah+was+appointed+as+deputy+inspector|title=Early Urdu Historiography|date=2005|publisher=Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library|language=en}}</ref>

<ref name=rekhta>{{Cite web|title=Urdu Books of Mohammad Zakaullah|url=https://www.rekhta.org/authors/mohammad-zakaullah/ebooks|access-date=22 December 2020|website=Rekhta}}</ref>

<ref name=abdulqadir>{{Cite book|last=Qadir|first=Abdul|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urduhindilinks/abdulqadir/09zakaullah.pdf|title=Famous Urdu Poets and Writers|publisher=New Book Society|year=1947|isbn=|location=|pages=159–167}}</ref>

<ref name=cambridge>{{Cite book|last1=Saikia|first1=Yasmin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLWQDwAAQBAJ&q=nawab+waqar-ul-mulk+biography&pg=PA91|title=The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan|last2=Rahman|first2=M. Raisur|date=21 March 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-48387-2|language=en}}</ref>

}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Charles Freer |author1-link=Charles Freer Andrews |title=Zaka Ullah of Delhi |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195659092 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMo2lQEACAAJ |access-date=22 December 2020}}
* Famous Urdu Poets and Writers, Abdul Qadir, 1947

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