Saiyid Nurul Hasan

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Saiyid Nurul Hasan
34th Governor of Odisha
In office
1 February 1993 – 31 May 1993
Preceded byYagya Datt Sharma
Succeeded byB. Satya Narayan Reddy
Personal details
Born(1921-12-26)26 December 1921
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
SpouseNawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba
OccupationHistorian, politician, diplomat

Odisha (1986–1993).[1][2][3]

Background and education

Hasan was born in

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 attended the

D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.[6]

At a young age, Hasan was married to Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba, eldest daughter of Nawab Raza Ali Khan of Rampur, in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. At that time, Khurshid Laqa's father was the ruler of Rampur, a major, 15 Gun Salute Princely state located not far from Delhi, and surrounded by the United Provinces. The present Nawab, Kazim Ali Khan, is a nephew of Khurshid Laqa. Nurul Hasan and Khurshid Laqa had a harmonious marriage which lasted all their lives, and had two children, a son named Sayyid Sirajul Hasan, an eminent physicist who retired as director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, and a daughter, Sayyida Talat Fatima Hasan, who is a successful entrepreneur based in the USA.[7]

Career

Academic

He began his academic career as a

Royal Asiatic Society
in London.

Political

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member 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.[9]

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting the 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.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.[12]

Death

He died of

Calcutta, West Bengal
in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

Legacy

Prof. Syed Nurul Hasan College, Farakka is named after him. The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.[13] 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:
    ISBN 81-87113-57-X
    .

See also

•

Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College

References

  1. ^ "BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha". ws.ori.nic.in. 2006. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012. SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN
  2. ^ "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
  3. ^ "Odisha Government Portal" (PDF). Orissa.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  4. ^ "- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow". Sultanulmadaris.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  5. ^ "La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010
  7. ^ [1] Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta". Cssscal.org. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  9. ^ "Council of Scientific & Industrial Research". Archived from the original on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  10. ^ [2] Archived 8 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Indian Ambassadors to USSR". Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
  12. ^ "Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata".
  13. ^ "Nurul Hasan Foundation". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013.
Political offices
Preceded by
Social Welfare and Culture

1972–1977 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador to the Soviet Union
1983–1986 		Succeeded by
T.N. Kaul
Preceded by
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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