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