M. Hidayatullah
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Mohammad Hidayatullah OBE |
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| 7th Vice President of India | |
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In office 31 August 1979 – 30 August 1984 |
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| President |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Zail Singh |
| Preceded by | B. D. Jatti |
| Succeeded by | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| Acting President of India | |
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In office 20 July 1969 – 24 August 1969 |
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| Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
| Preceded by | Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
| 11th Chief Justice of India | |
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In office 25 February 1968 – 16 December 1970 |
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| Appointed by | President Zakir Hussain |
| Preceded by | Kailas Nath Wanchoo |
| Succeeded by | Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 December 1905 Lucknow, United Provinces, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India) |
| Died | 18 September 1992 (aged 86) Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Pushpa Shah |
| Alma mater |
Nagpur University Trinity College, Cambridge Lincoln's Inn |
| Profession | Lawyer, Academician |
Mohammad Hidayatullah OBE 
pronunciation (17 December 1905 – 18 September 1992) was the 11th Chief Justice of India serving from 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970, and the sixth Vice President of India, serving from 31 August 1979 to 30 August 1984. He had also served as the Acting President of India from 20 July 1969 to 24 August 1969 and from 6 October 1982 to 31 October 1982. He is regarded as an eminent jurist, scholar, educationist, author and linguist. His brother, Mohammed Ikramullah, was a prominent Pakistani diplomat, whose wife, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, was a niece of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, sometime Prime Minister of undivided Pakistan and herself a member of the first Pakistani Constituent assembly.
Hidayatullah was born in 1905 in the well-known family of Khan Bahadur Hafiz Mohammed Wilayatullah, an upper-class family. His grand father Munshi Kudartullah was advocate in Varanasi. His father was a poet of all-India repute who wrote poems in Urdu and probably it must have been from him that Justice Hidayatullah got his love for language and literature. Wilayatullah was Gold medallist of Aligarh Muslim University in 1897 besting famous mathematician Sir Ziauddin Ahmad, a favourite of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. He served till 1928 in ICS and from 1929–33 as member of Central Legislative Assembly. Hidaytullah's elder brothers Mohammed Ikramullah (ICS, later Foreign Secretary, Pakistan) and Ahmedullah (ICS, retired as Chairman, Tariff Board) were scholars as well as sportsmen. He on the other hand excelled in Urdu poetry.
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