Saiyid Nurul Hasan
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan | |
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9th Union Minister of Education, Social Welfare and Culture | |
In office 24 March 1972 – 24 March 1977 | |
Preceded by | Siddhartha Shankar Ray |
Succeeded by | Pratap Chandra Chunder |
12th Ambassador to the Soviet Union | |
In office 1983–1986 | |
Preceded by | V.K. Ahuja |
Succeeded by | T.N. Kaul |
14th Governor of West Bengal | |
In office 12 August 1986 – 1 March 1989 | |
Preceded by | Uma Shankar Dikshit |
Succeeded by | T. V. Rajeswar |
32nd Governor of Odisha | |
In office 20 November 1988 – 6 February 1990 | |
Preceded by | Bishambhar Nath Pande |
Succeeded by | Yagya Datt Sharma |
16th Governor of West Bengal | |
In office 6 February 1990 – 12 July 1993 | |
Preceded by | Mohammad Shafi Qureshi |
Succeeded by | B. Satya Narayan Reddy |
34th Governor of Odisha | |
In office 1 February 1993 – 31 May 1993 | |
Preceded by | Yagya Datt Sharma |
Succeeded by | B. Satya Narayan Reddy |
Personal details | |
Born | Lucknow, United Provinces, British India | 26 December 1921
Died | 12 July 1993 Calcutta, West Bengal, India | (aged 71)
Spouse | Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba |
Occupation | Historian, politician, diplomat |
Saiyid Nurul Hasan (26 December 1921 – 12 July 1993) was an Indian historian and an elder statesman 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][2][3]
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, a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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 retired as 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] Then 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 president of the Oxford India Majlis.[8]
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).[9] When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the Rampur Raza Library was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.[10]
He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. 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.[11] The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi. He served as Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1986.[12] He was the Governor of West Bengal from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of Odisha in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.[13]
Death
He died of renal failure in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.
Legacy
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.[14] The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.
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
- ^ "BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha". ws.ori.nic.in. 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN
- ^ "Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937". ws.ori.nic.in. 2011. Archived from the original on 9 January 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha
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- ^ ":- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow". Sultanulmadaris.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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- ^ "Indian Ambassadors to USSR". Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
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- 1921 births
- 1993 deaths
- 20th-century Indian historians
- Aligarh Muslim University faculty
- University of Allahabad alumni
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Ambassadors of India to the Soviet Union
- Education Ministers of India
- Deaths from renal failure
- Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Governors of Odisha
- Governors of West Bengal
- Historians of South Asia
- Indian Marxist historians
- Indian political writers
- Indian Shia Muslims
- La Martiniere Calcutta alumni
- Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha
- Politicians from Lucknow
- Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
- Writers from Lucknow
- 20th-century Indian politicians