to succeed Sir Abdul Qadir as the adviser to the Secretary of State for India. He retired from that post in 1944. Suhrawardy was appointed an OBE in the 1927 Birthday Honours list, awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class in the same honours list in 1930, knighted on 17 February 1932, appointed an Associate Officer of the Venerable Order of St. John (OStJ) in January 1932 and promoted to Associate Commander in January 1937. Suhrawardy was active in the All-India Muslim League. Death and legacy Suhrawardy died at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, aged 61. He had renounced his knighthood and OBE a month before his death in August 1946, when the Muslim League decided to renounce all British honours. In April 1933, Calcutta Municipal Corporation named the new 100 ft. road from Park Circus to the junction of Kasaipara Lane as "Suhrawardy Avenue". Suhrawardy's house "Kashana" stood on that road. As of 2020, the house is used as the Library and Information Center building of the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh. References 1884 births 1946 deaths Indian medical academics Bengali educators 20th-century Bengalis Bengali Muslims Indian surgeons Academic staff of the University of Calcutta Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta Indian Knights Bachelor 20th-century Indian medical doctors Bengali scientists British Indian Army officers Suhrawardy family West Bengal politicians Medical doctors from Kolkata