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Nawab Abdul Latif (1828-1893) was a nineteenth-century educator and social worker in Bengal. He was born in 1828 at the village of Rajapur, Faridpur district. His father Fakir Mahmud was a lawyer in the civil court of Kolkata sadar. Nawab Abdul Latif obtained the highest degree in Arabic, French and English language from Calcutta Madrassah. Abdul Latif started his career as a teacher of Dhaka Collegiate School in 1846. Later on, he joined Calcutta Madrasa as a professor of Arabic and English (1848).