Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
| Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah 1st Governor of Sindh (1947–1948) 1st Chief Minister of Sindh (1937–1938) 5th Chief Minister of Sindh (1942–1947) |
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| 1st Governor of Sindh | |
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In office 15 August 1947 – 4 October 1948 (died in office) |
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| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Succeeded by | Shaikh Din Muhammad |
| 1st Chief Minister of Sindh | |
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In office 28 April 1937 – 23 March 1938 |
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| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Succeeded by | Allah Bux Soomro |
| 5th Chief Minister of Sindh | |
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In office October 14, 1942 – August 14, 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Allah Bux Soomro |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Ayub Khuhro |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1879 |
| Died | October 4, 1948 (aged 68–69) |
| Spouse(s) | Sughra Begum (m. 1940) |
Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah KCSI (Urdu: غلام حسین هدايت الله , Sindhi: غلام حسين هدايت الله), was a Pakistani politician from Sindh. He held several offices in Sindh including 1st Chief M.(1937–1938) and being re-elected as 5th Chief M.(1942–1947).
Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah was born in 1879 at Shikarpur and received his education from Shikarpur High School, Sindh Madressah, Karachi, D. J. Sindh College, Karachi and Government Law College, Bombay.
After completing his LL.B. in 1902, he started his legal practice in Hyderabad Sindh. He started his public career as Vice President of the Hyderabad Municipality. Hidayatullah was also the first Non-official President of the Hyderabad District Board. In 1921 he became a Member of the Bombay Legislative Council. In the same year, he was appointed a Minister in the Bombay Government, an office which he occupied till 1928 when he was made a Member of the Executive council of the Governor of Bombay. He served in this capacity til1 1934. He received the title of Khan Bahadur from the British government, which also knighted him in the 1926 New Year Honours and further appointed him a Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in the 1933 Birthday Honours.
As a Minister, Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah was associated with the famous 'Sukkur Barrage project' which contributed so much to the prosperity of Sindh in later years. Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, along with Khan Bahadur Muhammad Ayub Khuhro, Syed Miran Shah and Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, represented Sindh in the Round Table Conferences in London. They convinced the Chairman of the 'Committee on Sindh' that Sindh was not to be a deficit province and had sufficient revenue and administrative capability to be a full fledged province. Sindh was separated from Bombay and its first assembly came into being in 1937.
After the separation of Sindh from Bombay, Sir Ghulam Hussain became the first Chief Minister and remained so until 1947 with two short breaks when Allah Bux Soomro and Mir Bande Ali Talpur had formed their Governments. Sir Ghulam Hussain became the Chief Minister of Sindh three times.
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