Begum Zebunnessa and Kazi Mahbubullah Janakalyan Trust.

Prof.Kazi Shahidullah:

Prof. Kazi Shahidullah passed S.S.C in the FIRST DIVISION in 1967 from St. Gregory’s High School. He did his H.S.C from Dhaka College in 1969 and was placed in the FIRST DIVISION securing 17th position in the Board’s Merit List. He then obtained B.A.(Honours) 1972 and M.A. degree (1973) from the History Department, Dhaka University, securing FIRST CLASS FIRST position in both the examinations. Subsequently, he pursued higher studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, from where he was awarded M.A. degree in 1979, and the University of Western Australia, where he received the Ph.D degree in 1984. In both these institutions he was the recipient of University Graduate Fellowships.

Prof.Kazi Shahidullah has done post-doctoral research work in the United Kingdom and Australia. As Nuffield Fellow in 1989, he was attached to the Commonwealth Institute, U.K.In 1992 he was Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow and was attached to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Shahidullah did post-doctoral research work as a Visiting Fellow, South Asia Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. During that period he was concurrently a Visiting Fellow at the Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies, an institution jointly managed by Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. At that time,he was also involved with the National Centre for South Asian Studies located at Melbourne. At Curtin University, Professor Shahidullah also taught a course on the History of the Indian Ocean Region in the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages.

Prof. Kazi Shahidullah started his teaching career as a LECTURER of History at the University of Dhaka in February, 1976. He became a full PROFESSOR of the university in February 1991. He served the institution in different administrative capacities as well. He was CHAIRPERSON, Department of History from 2002 to 2005. He served three consecutive terms as elected DEAN of the Faculty of Arts from 1997 to 2003. He has also been elected to the Dhaka University Senate and was also an elected member of the Dhaka University Syndicate for ten consecutive years.

Prof. Kazi Shahidullah has published two books, Literacy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Devon and Suffolk (Dhaka: University Press Ltd,1984) and Patshalas into School: The Development of Indigenous Elementary Education in Bengal, 1854-1905 (Kolkata: Firma KLM 1987. He has also contributed an essay to The Transmission of Knowledge in South Asia (Oxford: New Delhi 1996). He has also contributed scholarly essays to national and international journals such as Indian Economic and Social History Review, Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Journal of Pakistan Historical Society, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and Dhaka University Studies. He has served on the Editorial Board of Dhaka University Studies, Part B,and has been REGIONAL EDITOR of Contemporary South Asia, a highly reputed international journal, published from Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, by Carfax Publishing Company. Prof. Kazi Shahidullah has presented many papers, held discussions, given talks and participated in seminars in universities of USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Iran, Pakistan and Nepal.

Prof.Kazi Shahidullah joined National University as Vice-Chancellor on February 24,2009. He successfully completed his four year term and then rejoined the History Department, Dhaka University as Professor in March 2013. which position he is continuing now. He is a Life Member of Bangladesh Asiatic Society and Bangladesh Historical Association and a Donor Member/Trustee of Begum Zebunnessa and Kazi Mahbubullah Welfare Trust. He is married to Shabnam Shahidullah and has three children, Natasha, Riyadh and Nadir.

Additional information

Financial Report
Annual Reports
General Report
Review of Achievements

Lha is a non-profit, non-governmental, grassroots social work organization located in Dharamsala, India. Lha was founded in 1997 and in 2005 was registered as a non-profit and charitable trust in Himachal Pradesh. Every year we submit our income statements to the Indian Income-Tax Department and undergo an audit. The following are our financial statements from 2005 to 2011 fiscal years, which have already been reviewed. Following the financial statements are graphical representations of some of the key aspects we would like to highlight.

Lha's commitment is to help the Tibetan people survive and prosper in their new home of Dharamsala and to preserve their profoundly unique culture. The means to which we have been able to accomplish these goals has changed over the years. In 2005, as a young organization, Lha had few assets. Lha has steadily grown since then, and now occupies two buildings, which house our classes, soup kitchen, social services and volunteer and exchange student group accommodations. In 2005 Lha had seven full time employees, which has since expanded to nine. The notable increase in wage expenses between 2009 and 2011 reflects the decision to provide a livable wage to the Tibetan employees.

Lha took on the responsibility to pay rent for the operations building during the 2009 financial year, after the purchasing of the new Ahimsa House building, and becoming more financially stable. Since 2005 we have slowly been accumulating assets for the language classes, computer courses and social services which function out of the building, such as computers for our offices and classes, and books and teaching resources for the community libraries.

In 2007 Lha began the process of acquiring a four story building, the Ahimsa House, to house a community soup kitchen and volunteer accommodation. In May 2011 Lha used the remaining funds from the corpus receipt and capital fund to make the final payment on the Ahimsa House. This will be reflected in the financial statement for the 2012 financial year. We began working on the community soup kitchen project in 2010 and officially opened it in 2011. Since 2007 Lha has also purchased many furnishings and appliances for the volunteer accommodations. The donations from Exchange students and volunteers staying in Lha’s accommodations have also created a new source of income for Lha. In the future, Lha hopes that the donations raised from visitors in these accommodations, in conjunction with cultural exchanges and visitors services, will create a stable and sustainable financial foundation for the organization.

Detail Financial Report

The Annual Report, written by Lha’s Director, Ngawang Rabgyal, sets out the aims of the organization, the year’s developments and the latest financial position. It also illustrates the diversity of the social programs provided, and the numbers of students who have benefited from these services. These achievements could not have been reached without the generosity of the volunteers and the dedication of the students and Lha’s employees.

Lha’s primary goal is to provide meaningful social services, such as free education, computer skills courses, vocational training, health and environmental education and service, volunteer coordination, cultural exchanges, free books, medicine and clothing distribution. The services of Lha are open to Tibetan refugees as well as the local Indian population and people from the Himalayan regions.