Mohammad Usman of Madras
Khan Bahadur Sir Mohammad Usman Viceroy of India | |
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In office 1942–1947 | |
Monarch | George VI of the United Kingdom |
Governors‑General | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell George Frederick Stanley |
Succeeded by | None |
Personal details | |
Born | 1884 British India |
Died | 1 February 1960 Madras, India | (aged 75–76)
Alma mater | Madras Christian College |
Occupation | Lawyer, hakim |
Profession | Politician |
Usman was born into an aristocratic family of
In person, Usman was both tall and very heavy. He was once described by V. S. Srinivasa Sastri as having a "magnificent frame", and Sastri's biographer says he was "of gargantuan size".[1]
Early life
Usman was born to Mohammad Yakub who belonged to an aristocratic family of
Political positions
Usman was elected to the
When the Raja of Bobbili took over as the Chief Minister or Premier of the Madras Presidency, Usman was made the Minister of Home in the provincial government. However, Usman resigned in 1934 recommending
In 1935, Usman became the first Indian President of the Rotary Club of Madras.[15]
As Acting Governor of Madras Presidency
Usman served as the acting
Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council
The British trusted Usman and considered him loyal.
On 2 July 1942, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, expanded his Executive Council to nineteen members, bringing in Usman, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, B. R. Ambedkar, Sir Jogendra Singh, and Sir J. P. Srivastava. This took the number of Indian members of the Council to fourteen, with five Europeans.[19] Usman was made the member for Posts and Air.[4][18]
Usman's political views, according to the next Viceroy, Wavell, were "such that even a hardened Tory might regard as reactionary", and Wavell later noted in his journal that Usman "believed that God never meant India to be independent".[20][21]
At a conference of Post Masters General shortly after the end of the
Death
Usman died on 1 February 1960 at the age of 76.[3]
Honors
Usman was knighted in the 1928 Birthday Honours[23] and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1933 New Year Honours.[24] On 14 June 1945, he was appointed a KCSI.[25]
Usman Road, a thoroughfare in T. Nagar, Chennai is named after him.
Notes
- ^ Jagadisan, T. N., V. S. Srinivasa Sastri (Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1969), p. 171
- ^ More, Pg 247
- ^ a b Sen, Siba Pada (1974). Dictionary of National Biography. Institute of Historical Studies. pp. 375.
- ^ a b Cang, Joel (1945). United Nations Who's who in Government and Industry. Allied Publications. p. 112.
- ^ Muthiah, S. (10 December 2007). "Third from right?". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ ISBN 978-0-521-56319-2.
- ISBN 978-969-415-035-2.
- ^ a b Nalanda Year-book & Who's who in India. 1947. p. 486.
- ^ a b Rajaraman, P. (1988). The Justice Party: A Historical Perspective, 1916–37. Poompozhil Publishers. p. 242.
- ISBN 978-0-7391-1322-6.
- ^ Great Britain India Office (1928). The India Office and Burma Office List. Harrison and Sons, Ltd. p. 737.
- ^ More, Pg 121
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-32321-5.
- ^ "A 75-year-old legacy". The Hindu. 11 August 2003.
- ^ a b Muthiah, S. (20 September 2004). "A Mylapore landmark". The Hindu.
- ^ Hasan, Khalid Shamsul, The Punjab Muslim League and the Unionists (Ushba Publishing International, 2005) p. 187
- ^ a b The International Who's who. Europa Publications Limited. 1955. p. 997.
- ^ Keer, Dhananjay, Dr Ambedkar: Life and Mission (Popular Prakashan, 1971) p. 347
- ^ Wavell, Archibald, Wavell, the Viceroy's Journal (Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 69 & 80
- ^ Waheed-uz-Zaman, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: Myth and Reality (National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, 1985), p. 64
- ^ Bernard Bel, Media and Mediation (SAGE Publications, New Delhi, 2005) p. 241
- ^ The London Gazette
- ^ Burke, Bernard; John Burke (1937). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 2881.
- ^ The London Gazette
References
- More, J. B. Prashant (1997). The Political Evolution of Muslims in Tamilnadu and Madras, 1930–1947. Orient Longman.