Background
He was the son of Golam Rabbani and grandson of Kazi Golam Sarwar, both folk poets.
He was the son of Golam Rabbani and grandson of Kazi Golam Sarwar, both folk poets.
Mustafa finished his primary education in Damukdia and passed the Entrance exam in 1913 from Shailkupa high school.
Early life and education
Born in 1897, in the village of Monoharpur in Shailkupa thana, Jessore district (now Jhenaidah), in present-day Bangladesh. He passed Bachelor from Ripon College in 1918 and British Telecom from David Hare Training College in 1922. Mostofa started teaching at Barakpore Government School in 1920.
He retired as headmaster of Faridpur Zila School in 1949.
He was the secretary of the East Bengal Government’s Language Reform Committee, formed in 1949. He believed in the two-nation theory that formed the basis for the ideals of Pakistan and, during the Language Movement in 1952, supported Urdu as the only state language of Pakistan.
Islamic heritage was one of his inspirations. His book Biswanabi (1942), a biography based on the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, provided him with wide recognition.
Mostafa died on 13 October 1964 at the age of 67, of cerebral thrombosis.
In 2014, the ancestral home of Mostafa in Jhenaidah was under threat from two land grabbers, who claimed partial ownership of the land. Though Kabi Golam Mustafa Memorial Library received a concrete building at the yard of the poet"s house in 2008 implemented by the Zila Parishad, Jhenidah, at a cost of Tk 1.70 million, there are, virtually, no reading materials were found to be there. Some parental property of the poet, including his paternal land and trees are secretly being sold, reliable sources.
