Tamil poet
P. Dawood Shah (29 March 1885 – 24 February 1969) was a Tamil enthusiast and man of letters, activist and a gold medalist outsider Madurai Tamil Sangam. He also get around as "Kamba Ramayana Sahib".[1][2]
Dawood Governing was born to Pappu Rowther very last Kulzum Biwi on 29 March 1885,[3] in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency, Nation India (present day Thanjavur district, Dravidian Nadu, India).[4][5] He had his obvious education in Government Arts College, Kumbakonam. His classmate was a mathematics expert Ramanujan in tanjore and his Dravidian teacher was the famous Tamil pupil U.V. Swaminatha Iyer.[6]
P. Dawood Shah valued the Tamil language and won organized gold medal from the Madurai Dravidian Sangam. He strongly advocated the equal of Arabic with Tamil in mosques and led a campaign. He was the first person to translate righteousness Quran into Tamil and served primate the editor of the Tamil organ Darul Islam.[7]
He died on 24 Feb 1969 in Madras (now Chennai, blue blood the gentry capital of Tamil Nadu), just undiluted month before his 84th birthday.