Abdul Haye
Mian Abdul Haye (December 1889 – 20 December 1946) was a prominent Punjabi lawyer and politician during the British Raj.
Biography
Haye was born into a wealthy
Muslim Awan family in Ludhiana, Punjab.[1][2] He was educated at Forman Christian College and the law college of the University of the Punjab.[3] He began his career as a lawyer in Ludhiana
in 1910.
Shortly after he was elected to the Ludhiana municipality, becoming its Vice-President. During the
Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1923 from the East Punjab Muslim constituency as a candidate of the Moderate Party. In 1933 he moved from Ludhiana to Lahore and joined the Unionist Party.[7]
Following the Unionist victory at the
Second World War
he again assisted with recruitment into the army, and in raising a war loan.
Although working towards Muslim-Hindu unity for much of his career in 1946 he became a staunch advocate for the creation of Pakistan and supported the Direct Action Movement initiated by the Muslim League.[9]
References
- ^ S.P. Sen, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 1-4, Calcutta, 1973
- ^ Gosain, Renu, Trends in the politics of the Punjab: Study in regional politics of undivided Punjab, 2014, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, p.99
- ^ S.P. Sen, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 1-4, Calcutta, 1973
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 8 January 1919, p.476
- ^ Gosain, Renu, Trends in the politics of the Punjab: Study in regional politics of undivided Punjab, 2014, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, p.99
- ^ S.P. Sen, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 1-4, Calcutta, 1973
- ^ Gosain, Renu, Trends in the politics of the Punjab: Study in regional politics of undivided Punjab, 2014, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, p.99
- ^ S.P. Sen, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 1-4, Calcutta, 1973
- ^ S.P. Sen, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 1-4, Calcutta, 1973