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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=Rafi Ahmed Kidwai<br />
|birth_date=18 February 1894<br />
|death_date=24 October 1954 <br>(aged 60)<br />
|birth_place=[[Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh|Barabanki]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_place=[[Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
|image=Rafi Ahmed Kidwai 1969 stamp of India.jpg<br />
| image_size=245px<br />
| caption = Kidwai on a 1969 stamp of India<br />
|education = [[Aligarh Muslim University]]<br />
|organization=[[Indian National Congress]]<br />
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'''Rafi Ahmed Kidwai''' (18 February 1894 – 24 October 1954) was a politician, an [[Indian independence activists|Indian independence activist]] and a socialist. He hailed from [[Barabanki district|Barabanki]] District of [[Uttar Pradesh|United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh]], in north India.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Rafi Ahmed was born in the village of Masauli, in [[Barabanki district]] (now in [[Uttar Pradesh]]).<ref name="odnb"/><br />
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==Death==<br />
Kidwai died in Delhi on 24 October 1954. He had [[heart failure]] after experiencing an attack of [[asthma]] while delivering a speech. His burial site, at his home village, was covered by a Mughal-style mausoleum. According to historian [[Paul Brass]], "A formidable fund-raiser for Congress movements and elections, he distributed his largesse to all and sundry, but died in debt, leaving behind only a decaying house in his home village."<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB|id=94954|title=Kidwai, Rafi Ahmad (1894–1954)}}</ref><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
The [[Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award]] was created in 1956 by the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]] (ICAR) in 1956 to recognize Indian researchers in the agricultural field. Awards are distributed every second year, and take the form of medals, citations, and cash prizes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icar.org.in/merits.html |title=Merits & Awards|accessdate=2008-09-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603012010/http://www.icar.org.in/merits.html |archivedate=3 June 2008 |df=dmy-all |publisher=icar.org.in}}</ref><br />
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In November 2011, the Postal Staff College in Ghaziabad was named as the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy.<ref>A. Kumaraswamy (31 October 2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103121837/http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Pdf/No.2-04-2009-Trg_31-10-2011.pdf rename of the Postal Staff College India]. Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India.</ref> There is also a street named after him in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kolkata.yellowpages.co.in/locality/rafi+ahmed+kidwai+road|title=Kolkata Yellow Pages|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref><br />
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There is a street named after him in Wadala Mumbai.<br />
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The [[Parliament of India]] has a portrait of Kidwai in a Committee Room.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180324065731/http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/picture_gallery/ra_kidwai_6.asp Rafi Ahmed Kidwai]. rajyasabha.nic.in.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* M. Bassien, ed., ''Who's who in legislature, 1'' (1953)<br />
* M. Weiner, ''Party politics in India: the development of a multi-party system'' (1957)<br />
* P. N. Chopra, ''Rafi Ahmad Kidwai: his life and work'' (1960)<br />
* S. Sunder and S. Shyam, ''Political life of Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, 1: 1887–1945'' (1960)<br />
* Sampurnanand, ''Memories and reflections'' (1962)<br />
* A. P. Jain, ''Rafi Ahmad Kidwai: a memoir of his life and times'' (1965)<br />
* P. R. Brass, ''Factional politics in an Indian state: the Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh'' (1966)<br />
* S. Gopal, ''Jawaharlal Nehru: a biography, 2: 1947–1956'' (1979)<br />
* V. Menon, ''From movement to government: the Congress in the United Provinces, 1937–42'' (2003)<br />
* M. Hasan, ''From pluralism to separatism: qasbas in colonial Awadh'' (2004)<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://rrtd.nic.in/rafiahmedkidwai.html Biography from the Government of India's Ministry of Information]<br />
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