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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Saiyid Nurul Hasan
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9th Union Minister of Education, Social Welfare and Culture
In office
24 March 1972 – 24 March 1977
Preceded by Siddhartha Shankar Ray
Succeeded by Pratap Chandra Chunder
12th Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office
1983–1986
Preceded by V.K. Ahuja
Succeeded by T.N. Kaul
14th Governor of West Bengal
In office
12 August 1986 – 1 March 1989
Preceded by Uma Shankar Dikshit
Succeeded by T. V. Rajeswar
32nd Governor of Odisha
In office
20 November 1988 – 6 February 1990
Preceded by Bishambhar Nath Pande
Succeeded by Yagya Datt Sharma
16th Governor of West Bengal
In office
6 February 1990 – 12 July 1993
Preceded by Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
Succeeded by B. Satya Narayan Reddy
34th Governor of Odisha
In office
1 February 1993 – 31 May 1993
Preceded by Yagya Datt Sharma
Succeeded by B. Satya Narayan Reddy
Personal details
Born (1921-12-26)26 December 1921
Lucknow, British India
Died 12 July 1993(1993-07-12) (aged 71)
Calcutta, India
Spouse(s) Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba
Occupation Historian, politician, diplomat

Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921–1993) was an Indian historian and an elder statesman in the Government of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha, he was the Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, Social Welfare and Culture, Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of Bengal and Odisha (1986-1993).

Hasan was born in Lucknow, India. He belonged to a taluqdari (madad-i ma'ash) family of the United Provinces. He was the son of Saiyid Abdul Hasan and Nur Fatima Begum. His father was a District Settlement Officer and later President of the Court of Wards in the United Provinces. His maternal grandfather was Sir Syed Wazir Hasan, Chief Justice of the Court of Oudh and a well known President of the Muslim League, who had called for Hindu-Muslim unity in 1936. His maternal uncles were Syed Sajjad Zaheer, an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a minister and an ambassador. He was married to Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba, the eldest daughter of Nawab Raza Ali Khan of Rampur, a 15 Gun Salute State in the former United Provinces. They have two children, Sayyid Sirajul Hasan, an eminent physicist, who retired as Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and Sayyida Talat Fatima Hasan, who is a very successful entrepreneur in the USA.

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow. Then he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,. He completed his graduation from Muir Central College, Allahabad, where he was a student of Professor R.P. Tripathi. Later he went to New College, Oxford, where he completed an M.A. and D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford he was a President of the Oxford India Majlis.


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