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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

2022-11-04T01:02:15Z

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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

{{Infobox officeholder
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|image = Saiyid Nurul Hasan 16.jpg
|alt =
|caption =
|office1 = [[Government of India|9th Union]] [[Minister of Education (India) | Minister of Education]], [[Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment | Social Welfare]] and [[Ministry of Culture (India) | Culture]]
|term_start1 = 24 March 1972
|term_end1 = 24 March 1977
|predecessor1 = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|successor1 = [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]
|office2 = 12th Ambassador to the Soviet Union
|term_start2 = 1983
|term_end2 = 1986
|predecessor2 = V.K. Ahuja
|successor2 = T.N. Kaul
|office3 = 13th Governor of West Bengal
|term_start3 = 12 August 1986
|term_end3 = 1 March 1989
|predecessor3 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]
|successor3 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|office4 = 32nd Governor of Odisha
|term_start4 = 20 November 1988
|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
|predecessor4 = [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]]
|successor4 = Yagya Datt Sharma
|office5 = 15th Governor of West Bengal
|term_start5 = 6 February 1990
|term_end5 = 12 July 1993
|predecessor5 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|office6 = 34th Governor of Odisha
|term_start6 = 1 February 1993
|term_end6 = 31 May 1993
|predecessor6 = Yagya Datt Sharma
|successor6 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1921|12|26|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|07|12|1921|12|26|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
|occupation = Historian, politician, diplomat
|spouse = Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba
|children = 2
}}

'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 the ministries of Social Welfare and of Culture of the Government of India (1971-1977), India's ambassador to the USSR and the governor of West Bengal (1986-89 and 1990-93) and of Odisha (1988-90 and February-May 1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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, a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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 a D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, such as the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the Rampur Raza Library was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi. He served as ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the governor of West Bengal from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of Odisha in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of renal failure in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
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|after = [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]|
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| years = 1983–1986|
| before = [[V.K. Ahuja]]|
| after = [[T.N. Kaul]]|
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| years = 1986–1989 (first term); 1990–1993 (second term)|
| before = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]] (first term); [[T.V. Rajeswar]] (second term)|
| after = [[T.V. Rajeswar]] (first term); [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]] (second term)|
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| after = [[Yagya Dutt Sharma (Punjab politician)|Yagya Dutt Sharma]] (first term); [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]] (second term)|
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

2022-11-04T00:55:54Z

2402:3A80:1CD6:EC88:778:5634:1232:5476:

{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

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|image = Saiyid Nurul Hasan 16.jpg
|alt =
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|office1 = [[Government of India|9th Union]] [[Minister of Education (India) | Minister of Education]], [[Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment | Social Welfare]] and [[Ministry of Culture (India) | Culture]]
|term_start1 = 24 March 1972
|term_end1 = 24 March 1977
|predecessor1 = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|successor1 = [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]
|office2 = 12th Ambassador to the Soviet Union
|term_start2 = 1983
|term_end2 = 1986
|predecessor2 = V.K. Ahuja
|successor2 = T.N. Kaul
|office3 = 13th Governor of West Bengal
|term_start3 = 12 August 1986
|term_end3 = 1 March 1989
|predecessor3 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]
|successor3 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|office4 = 32nd Governor of Odisha
|term_start4 = 20 November 1988
|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
|predecessor4 = [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]]
|successor4 = Yagya Datt Sharma
|office5 = 15th Governor of West Bengal
|term_start5 = 6 February 1990
|term_end5 = 12 July 1993
|predecessor5 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|office6 = 34th Governor of Odisha
|term_start6 = 1 February 1993
|term_end6 = 31 May 1993
|predecessor6 = Yagya Datt Sharma
|successor6 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1921|12|26|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|07|12|1921|12|26|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
|occupation = Historian, politician, diplomat
|spouse = Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba
|children = 2
}}

'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 the Ministries of Social Welfare and of Culture of the Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and of Odisha (1986-1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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, a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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 a D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, such as the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the Rampur Raza Library was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi. He served as ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the governor of West Bengal from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of Odisha in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of renal failure in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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| title = [[Government of India|Union]] [[minister (government)|Minister]] of [[Education]], [[Social Welfare]] and [[Culture]]
| years = 1972–1977|
|before = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]|
|after = [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]|
}}
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| title = [[Ambassador]] to the Soviet Union|
| years = 1983–1986|
| before = [[V.K. Ahuja]]|
| after = [[T.N. Kaul]]|
}}
{{succession box |
| title = [[Governor of West Bengal]]|
| years = 1986–1989 (first term); 1990–1993 (second term)|
| before = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]] (first term); [[T.V. Rajeswar]] (second term)|
| after = [[T.V. Rajeswar]] (first term); [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]] (second term)|
}}
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| title = [[Governor of Odisha]]|
| years = 1988–1990 (first term); February 1993 – May 1993 (second term)|
| before = [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]] (first term); [[Yagya Dutt Sharma (Punjab politician)|Yagya Dutt Sharma]] (second term)|
| after = [[Yagya Dutt Sharma (Punjab politician)|Yagya Dutt Sharma]] (first term); [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]] (second term)|
}}
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{{Governors of West Bengal}}

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[[Category:Ambassadors of India to the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Education Ministers of India]]
[[Category:Deaths from kidney failure]]
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[[Category:Governors of Odisha]]
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

2022-11-04T00:46:32Z

2402:3A80:1CD6:EC88:778:5634:1232:5476: /* Death */

{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Saiyid Nurul Hasan
|image = Saiyid Nurul Hasan 16.jpg
|alt =
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|office1 = [[Government of India|9th Union]] [[Minister of Education (India) | Minister of Education]], [[Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment | Social Welfare]] and [[Ministry of Culture (India) | Culture]]
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|predecessor1 = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|successor1 = [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]
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|term_end2 = 1986
|predecessor2 = V.K. Ahuja
|successor2 = [[T.N. Kaul]]
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|term_end3 = 1 March 1989
|predecessor3 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]
|successor3 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
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|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
|predecessor4 = [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]]
|successor4 = [[Yagya Datt Sharma]]
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|term_end5 = 12 July 1993
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|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
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|term_end6 = 31 May 1993
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|successor6 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
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'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 the Ministries of Social Welfare and of Culture of the Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and of Odisha (1986-1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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, a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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 a D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, such as the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the Rampur Raza Library was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi. He served as ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the governor of West Bengal from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of Odisha in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of renal failure in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

2022-11-04T00:45:29Z

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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

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|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
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|successor4 = [[Yagya Datt Sharma]]
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|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
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'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 the Ministries of Social Welfare and of Culture of the Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and of Odisha (1986-1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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, a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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 a D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, such as the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the Rampur Raza Library was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi. He served as ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the governor of West Bengal from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of Odisha in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of [[renal failure]] in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

2022-11-04T00:42:15Z

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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

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|predecessor2 = V.K. Ahuja
|successor2 = [[T.N. Kaul]]
|office3 = [[List of Governors of West Bengal|13th Governor of West Bengal]]
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|term_end3 = 1 March 1989
|predecessor3 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]
|successor3 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|office4 = [[List of Governors of Odisha|32nd Governor of Odisha]]
|term_start4 = 20 November 1988
|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
|predecessor4 = [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]]
|successor4 = [[Yagya Datt Sharma]]
|office5 = [[List of Governors of West Bengal|Governor of West Bengal]]
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|term_end5 = 12 July 1993
|predecessor5 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|office6 = [[List of Governors of Odisha|34th Governor of Odisha]]
|term_start6 = 1 February 1993
|term_end6 = 31 May 1993
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|successor6 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
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'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 the Ministries of Social Welfare and of Culture of the Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and of Odisha (1986-1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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, a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and Syed Ali Zaheer, a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the Sultan ul Madaris, Lucknow.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the La Martiniere Boys' College in Kolkata,.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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 a D.Phil. in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], [[New Delhi]]. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] (ICSSR), New Delhi, such as the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the [[Rampur Raza Library]] was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the [[Centre for Women's Development Studies]], Delhi. He served as [[Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union]] from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the Governor of [[West Bengal]] from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of [[Odisha]] in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the [[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]] (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of [[renal failure]] in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
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| after = [[T.N. Kaul]]|
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

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|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
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|successor4 = [[Yagya Datt Sharma]]
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|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
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'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 the Ministries of Social Welfare and of Culture of the Government of India (1971-1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and of Odisha (1986-1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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 (India)|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]], a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and [[Syed Ali Zaheer]], a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the [[Sultan ul Madaris]], [[Lucknow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the [[La Martiniere Calcutta|La Martiniere Boys' College]] in [[Kolkata]],.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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|New College]], [[Oxford]], where he completed an [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|M.A.]] and [[Doctorate of Philosophy|D.Phil.]] in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], [[New Delhi]]. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] (ICSSR), New Delhi, such as the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the [[Rampur Raza Library]] was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the [[Centre for Women's Development Studies]], Delhi. He served as [[Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union]] from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the Governor of [[West Bengal]] from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of [[Odisha]] in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the [[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]] (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of [[renal failure]] in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan

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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2021}}{{for|the Bangladesh cricketer|Nurul Hasan (cricketer)}}

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|term_end1 = 24 March 1977
|predecessor1 = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|successor1 = [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]
|office2 = 12th [[Ambassador to the Soviet Union]]
|term_start2 = 1983
|term_end2 = 1986
|predecessor2 = V.K. Ahuja
|successor2 = [[T.N. Kaul]]
|office3 = [[List of Governors of West Bengal|13th Governor of West Bengal]]
|term_start3 = 12 August 1986
|term_end3 = 1 March 1989
|predecessor3 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]
|successor3 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|office4 = [[List of Governors of Odisha|32nd Governor of Odisha]]
|term_start4 = 20 November 1988
|term_end4 = 6 February 1990
|predecessor4 = [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]]
|successor4 = [[Yagya Datt Sharma]]
|office5 = [[List of Governors of West Bengal|Governor of West Bengal]]
|term_start5 = 6 February 1990
|term_end5 = 12 July 1993
|predecessor5 = [[T. V. Rajeswar]]
|successor5 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|office6 = [[List of Governors of Odisha|34th Governor of Odisha]]
|term_start6 = 1 February 1993
|term_end6 = 31 May 1993
|predecessor6 = [[Yagya Datt Sharma]]
|successor6 = [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1921|12|26|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|07|12|1921|12|26|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
|occupation = Historian, politician, diplomat
|spouse = Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba
}}

'''[[Sayyid|Saiyid]] Nurul Hasan''' (26 December 1921 – 12 July 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 [[Minister of Education (India) | Education]], [[Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment | Social Welfare]] and [[Ministry of Culture (India) | Culture]] Government of India (1971-1977) and the [[List of Governors of West Bengal | Governor of West Bengal]] and [[List of Governors of Odisha|Odisha]] (1986-1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/govv.htm |title=BIO - DATA OF GOVERNORS OF Odisha |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2006 |quote=SHRI M. M. RAJENDRAN |accessdate=23 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109172223/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/brief.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2007 |title=Brief History of Odisha Legislative Assembly Since 1937 |work=ws.ori.nic.in |year=2011 |quote=NAME OF THE GOVERNORS OF Odisha |accessdate=24 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |title=Odisha Government Portal |publisher=Orissa.gov.in |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030651/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/OR-Annual-2009/pdf/405-418.pdf |archivedate=19 December 2013}}</ref>

==Background and education==

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 (India)|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]], a barrister and an eminent Marxist thinker and [[Syed Ali Zaheer]], a barrister who became the law minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's ambassador to Iran. Hasan 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} 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.<ref name="indianprincelystates">[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/rampur.html |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Hasan attended the [[Sultan ul Madaris]], [[Lucknow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |title=:- Welcome to the Sultanul Madaris, Lucknow |publisher=Sultanulmadaris.org |accessdate=2016-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075649/http://www.sultanulmadaris.org/admin.html |archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref> Then he went to the [[La Martiniere Calcutta|La Martiniere Boys' College]] in [[Kolkata]],.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |title=La Martiniere Boys' College, Calcutta, website |accessdate=2010-10-10 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027050331/http://geocities.com/agarodia/lamartiniere/lmcmain.html |archivedate=27 October 2009}}</ref> 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|New College]], [[Oxford]], where he completed an [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|M.A.]] and [[Doctorate of Philosophy|D.Phil.]] in Indian history. In Oxford, he was president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="memoriesofarollingstone">[https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rolling-Stone-Mazumdar/dp/8189884522# Veena Majumdar, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2010]</ref>

==Career==

===Academic===

He began his academic career as a lecturer in History at Allahabad University and was later a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was appointed as director of the Allahabad University Centre for Advanced Studies and was also professor at the Department of History at Aligarh Muslim University, of which he was a chairperson as well. Later he became the general secretary (1964-67) and then general president (1972) of the Indian History Congress. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

===Political===

A secularist with an abiding faith in leftism, Hasan was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] from 1969 to 1978. From 1971 to 1977, he was the Union Minister of State (with independent charge) for Education, Social Welfare & Culture in the Government of India. As India's education minister, he founded the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], [[New Delhi]]. He was also the architect behind the setting up of 27 social science research institutes in India under the aegis of the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] (ICSSR), New Delhi, such as the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] (1973).<ref name="csssc">{{cite web|url=http://cssscal.org/ |title=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |publisher=Cssscal.org |date=2016-08-11 |accessdate=2016-08-29}}</ref> When he was a minister, under an act of the parliament, the funding and management of the [[Rampur Raza Library]] was given to the Government of India. From 1977 to 1980 he was Vice President of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR), New Delhi.<ref name="csir">[http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexchronological Council of Scientific & Industrial Research]</ref>

He was instrumental in improving the career advancement scheme of many leftist college and university teachers in India, impacting political neutrality of education. He was also instrumental in starting the 10+2+3 system of education at the High School, Junior College and undergraduate levels. He played a major role in tabling "Towards Equality: The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (1974-5)" in parliament, which was submitted by a committee appointed by the Government of India.<ref name="thehindu">[http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608160906/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-stone-who-anchored-the-womens-movement/article4766709.ece |date=8 June 2013 }}</ref> The findings of this report formed the basis for the establishment of the [[Centre for Women's Development Studies]], Delhi. He served as [[Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union]] from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="ussrambassador">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Indian Ambassadors to USSR |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002195229/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/embassy/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archivedate=2 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the Governor of [[West Bengal]] from 1986 to 1989 and then again from 1989 to 1993. He was the Governor of [[Odisha]] in 1989. As the Governor of West Bengal, he founded the [[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]] (1993). He was the first President of the institute's Society.<ref name="makaias">{{cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=99996 |title=Chairman, Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata}}</ref>

==Death==
He died of [[renal failure]] in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] in 1993, aged 71, while continuing in office as the Governor.

==Legacy==
The Nurul Hasan Education Foundation is named after him.<ref name="nurulhasanfoundation">{{cite web|url=http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131015075458/http://wewit.in/content/talat-hasan |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-15 |title=Nurul Hasan Foundation }}</ref> The Nurul Hasan Chair Professorship of the Department of History of the University of Calcutta is named after him.

==Publications==
*''Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India : Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan'' (Satish Chandra, editor). New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 335 S. : Kt. {{ISBN|0-19-566765-4}} / 978-019566765-3
*''Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders : Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume'' (Mansura Haidar, editor), 2004.
* ''Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof. S. Nurul Hasan'', Publisher: [[Rampur Raza Library]], 2003. {{ISBN|81-87113-57-X}}.

==See also==
•[[Prof Syed Nurul Hasan College]]

==References==
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| after = [[Yagya Dutt Sharma (Punjab politician)|Yagya Dutt Sharma]] (first term); [[B. Satya Narayan Reddy]] (second term)|
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