Biography | A. M. Jamadar

Early life

His full name was Guruvarya Abdul Hamid Miraso Jamadar — the initials "A. M." by which he was known throughout his public life and across every newspaper clipping and album page stood for Abdul and his own middle name, Miraso.

Abdul Hamid Miraso Jamadar came from a farming family (शेतकरी कुटुंब) in Kagal, a town in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra — a detail recorded in a 1985 newspaper profile marking his election as the state union's Secretary-General. He trained as a primary-school teacher and, according to that same profile, had built roughly 25 years of teaching and union service by 1985 — placing the start of his teaching career at around 1960.

Two undated photographs in the family collection are believed to date from this earlier period of his life, though neither carries a caption identifying the people, place, or occasion:

A formal studio portrait of four young men in shirts, ties and a jacket; no caption identifies them or the occasion. — A studio portrait of four young men, undated — possibly A. M. Jamadar with early colleagues or friends. Not identified by any caption.

An old, undated group photograph believed to show school staff and colleagues outside a tiled-roof building. — A group photograph outside a tiled-roof school building, undated and uncaptioned.

Headmaster of Hindurao Ghatge Vidyamandir, Kagal

Jamadar taught at, and became headmaster of, Hindurao Ghatge Vidyamandir (also recorded as Hindurao Ghatge Taluka Vidyamandir) in Kagal — a school old enough that the family album records its 130th anniversary celebration, presided over with Education Minister Sadanand Varde and MLA Vikramsingh Ghatge, with Jamadar presiding as headmaster.

Alongside his teaching duties, he was active in local civic and cooperative life, including work connected to the Prathmik Shikshak Sahakari Bank Ltd., Kolhapur — a teachers' cooperative bank — and in organising a Savitribai Phule child-sponsorship (दत्तक पालक) scheme in Kagal in 1984.

From district secretary to state Secretary-General

Jamadar's union career began in the Kolhapur Zilla Parishad in 1963, when he was drawn into leadership of the Kolhapur Zilla Prathmik Shikshak Sangh (Kolhapur District Primary Teachers' Union) — first as its Secretary (कार्यवाह), later as its President.

By June 1985, at the Maharashtra Rajya Prathmik Shikshak Sangh's Diamond Jubilee session held in Sangli, he was elected the union's General Secretary (सरचिटणीस) for the entire state, succeeding B. R. Desai — a role multiple Kolhapur and Sangli newspapers reported as the recognition of some 22 years of organisational work. He also served as General Secretary of the Rashtriya Prathmik Shikshan Parishad, Mumbai, and edited that council's own souvenir publication.

Read the full career timeline for a chronological account, or see his meetings with national and state leaders and his role in hosting international delegations.