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Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Governor of Odisha
In office
20 November 1988 – 6 February 1990
Preceded byBishambhar Nath Pande
Succeeded byYagya Datt Sharma
Governor of Odisha
In office
1 February 1993 – 31 May 1993
Preceded byYagya Datt Sharma
Succeeded byB. Satya Narayan Reddy
Governor of West Bengal
In office
12 August 1986 – 1 March 1989
Preceded byUma Shankar Dikshit
Succeeded byT. V. Rajeswar
Governor of West Bengal
In office
7 February 1990 – 4 January 1991
Preceded byT. V. Rajeswar
Succeeded byK. V. Raghunatha Reddy
14th Governor of West Bengal
In office
25 January 1991 – 3 January 1992
Preceded byK. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Succeeded byMohammad Shafi Qureshi
16th Governor of West Bengal
Preceded byMohammad Shafi Qureshi
Succeeded byMohammad Shafi Qureshi
18th Governor of West Bengal
In office
30 November 1992 – 12 July 1993
Preceded byMohammad Shafi Qureshi
Succeeded byB. Satya Narayan Reddy
Personal details
Born(1921-12-26)26 December 1921
Lucknow, British India
Died12 July 1993(1993-07-12) (aged 71)
Calcutta, India
SpouseNawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba
OccupationHistorian, politician, diplomat

Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921-1993) was an Indian historian and an elder statesman[citation needed] in the Government of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha, he was the Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, Social Welfare and Culture, Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of Bengal and Odisha (1986-1993).[1][dead link‍][2][dead link‍][3][dead link‍]

Background and education

Hasan was born in Lucknow, India. He belonged to a taluqdari (madad-i ma'ash) family of the United Provinces. He was the son of Saiyid Abdul Hasan and Nur Fatima Begum. His father was a District Settlement Officer and later President of the Court of Wards in the United Provinces. His maternal grandfather was Sir Syed Wazir Hasan, Chief Justice of the Court of Oudh and a well known President of the Muslim League, who had called for Hindu-Muslim unity in 1936. His maternal uncles were Syed Sajjad Zaheer, an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a minister and an ambassador. He was married to Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba, the eldest daughter of Nawab Raza Ali Khan of Rampur, a 15 Gun Salute State in the former United Provinces.[4] They have two children, Sayyid Sirajul Hasan, an eminent physicist, who is the Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and Sayyida Talat Fatima Hasan, who is a very successful entrepreneur in the USA.[5]

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow.[6] The he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,.[7] He completed his graduation from Muir Central College, Allahabad, where he was a student of Professor R.P. Tripathi. Later he went to New College, Oxford, where he completed an M.A. and D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford he was the President of the Oxford India Majlis.[citation needed]

Career

Academic

He began his academic career as a Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as Professor in the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a Chairperson as well. He contributed greatly to the growth of the History department in Aligarh in its initial years. Later he became the General Secretary and then the President of the Indian History Congress. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

Political

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1969-1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, such as the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (1973).[8] He was instrumental in improving the career promotion scheme of college and university teachers in India. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.[9]

From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. He served as Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1986.[10] He was the Governor of West Bengal from 1986 to 1989 and 1989 to 1993 and also the Governor of Odisha in 1989.

When he was the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was its first chairman.[11]

Death

He died of renal failure in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1993, while continuing in office as the Governor.

Legacy

The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.[12]

Publications

  • Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. ISBN 0-19-566765-4 / 978-019566765-3
  • Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
  • Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan, Publisher: Rampur Raza Library, 2003. ISBN 81-87113-57-X.

References

  1. ^ "BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha". ws.ori.nic.in. 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2012. SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN
  2. ^ "Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937". ws.ori.nic.in. 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2012. NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha
  3. ^ http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.royalark.net/India/rampur6.htm%7C
  5. ^ http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html%7C
  6. ^ http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html
  7. ^ Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ http://cssscal.org/
  9. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece%7C
  10. ^ "Indian Ambassadors to USSR". Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata".
  12. ^ "Nurul Hasan Foundation".
Political offices
Preceded by Union Minister of Education, Social Welfare and Culture
1972–1977 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador to the Soviet Union
1983–1986 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Uma Shankar Dikshit (first term); T.V. Rajeswar (second term)
 Governor of West Bengal
1986–1989 (first term); 1990–1993 (second term) 		Succeeded by
T.V. Rajeswar (first term); B. Satya Narayan Reddy (second term)
Preceded by
Bishambhar Nath Pande (first term); Yagya Dutt Sharma (second term)
 Governor of Odisha
1988–1990 (first term); February 1993 – May 1993 (second term) 		Succeeded by
Yagya Dutt Sharma (first term); B. Satya Narayan Reddy (second term)


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