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	'''Mirza Rashid Ali Baig''' (25 March 1905, [[Hyderabad, Sindh\|Hyderabad]] - 29 April 1979) was an Indian army officer and later diplomat.		'''Mirza Rashid Ali Baig''' (25 March 1905, [[Hyderabad, Sindh\|Hyderabad]] - 29 April 1979) was an Indian army officer and later diplomat.

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'''Mirza Rashid Ali Baig''' (25 March 1905, [[Hyderabad, Sindh|Hyderabad]] - 29 April 1979) was an Indian army officer and later diplomat.

== Life ==
Mirza Rashid Ali Baig was a son of Sir Mirza Abbas Ali Baig (1859 - 1 June 1932), Chief Minister of the [[Junagadh]] district and descendant of the [[Timur]]. Mirza Rashid Ali Baig married Tara Ali Baig (1916-1989).<ref>[http://www.streeshakti.com/bookT.aspx?author=2 TARA ALI BAIG (1916-1989)]</ref>

He studied at [[Clifton College]], and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref>Clifton College Register 1862-1925</ref> He was commissioned into the [[British Indian Army]] in 1924 but resigned in 1930.

He then became private secretary and [[ghostwriter]] to [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], who wrote the [[Lahore resolution]] in 1940 which caused a rupture in the relationship of MRA Baig with him.

Baig then became liaison secretary of the [[Indian Red Cross Society]] and the [[Troops Fund]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]]. In 1942 he became sheriff of Bombay and joined the [[Indian Foreign Service]]. In 1946 he was [[consul (representative)|consul]] in [[Goa]]. From 1946 to 1949 he was [[Consul General]] in French and Portuguese possessions in India.

Baig held the following posts:

* From 1949 to 1951: Secretary of First Class and Indian Chargé d'Affaires in [[Jakarta]].
* From 1951 to 1955: envoy in [[Manila]].
* From 1955 to 1961: Master of Ceremonies of the [[Ministry of External Affairs (India)|Ministry of External Affairs]].
* From 1961 to 1964: ambassador to [[Tehran]].

He had an older brother, Mirza Osman Ali Baig [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (1904-1992) who was a [[British Indian Army]] cavalry officer, then a member of the colonial [[Indian Political Service]] and, after independence, a Pakistani diplomat.

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