 In 2008 Md.Shams Alam a research scholar from the Department of Arabic, Persian and Urdu of University of Madras published a research paper on Daryabadi which was titled "Moulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi ki ilmi wa adabi khidmath".Daryabadi belonged to the Kidwai family which was one of the highly educated and distinguished Muslim families of modern India.