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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Dr. Shaukatullah Shah Ansari<br /> शौकतुल्ला शाह अंसारी
|image =
|office = [[List of Governors of Odisha|8th Governor of Orissa]]
|term_start = 31 January 1968
|term_end = 20 September 1971
|predecessor = [[Ajudhia Nath Khosla]]
|successor = Sardar Jojendra Singh
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| constituency1 = [[Bidar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bidar]]
| term_start1 = 1951
| term_end1 = 1957
| successor1 = None
| predecessor2 =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1908|05|12|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Yusufpur]], [[Ghazipur]], India
|death_date = {{death date and age|1972|12|29|1908|05|12|df=y}}
|death_place =
|occupation = [[Indian independence activist]], [[politician]], [[diplomat]]
|spouse =
}}

'''Dr. Shaukatullah Shah Ansari''' (12 May 1908 – 29 December 1972) was an Indian politician, physician, diplomat, and physician who was elected to the Indian Parliament from the [[Bidar]] parliamentary constituency for the first [[Lok Sabha]] of India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/593.htm|publisher=loksabhaph.nic.in|title=First Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile|accessdate=25 May 2019}}</ref>

==Early life==
Shaukatullah Shah was born on 16 June 1908 in [[Yusufpur]]-[[Mohammadabad, Ghazipur|Mohammadabad]] in [[Ghazipur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]. His father, Amjadulla Shah, was a district judge at [[Mirzapur]]. Shaukatullah Shah received his early education at home. Thereafter he got enrolled at Aligarh Muslim University for higher studies. He obtained his bachelor degree in sciences and doctor of medicine from [[Geneva]] high school, [[Switzerland]] and [[University of Paris]], [[France]]. He was adopted by former president of [[Indian National Congress]] [[Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari]]. He started practicing medicine in [[Delhi]] in 1937 with his dispensary in [[Chandni Chowk]] near fountain.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKa9khFcKmQC&q=Dr+Shaukatullah+Shah+Ansari+Paris&pg=PA52|title=Encyclopaedia of Islamic Science and Scientists: A-H|isbn=9788182200586|accessdate=25 May 2019|last1=Zaki Kirmani|first1=M.|last2=Singh|first2=Nagendra Kr|year=2005}}</ref> Educated in [[Paris]] at a time when the European intellectual atmosphere was surcharged with socialism and it's struggle against fascism (with the [[Second World War]] about to break out), Shaukat studied [[socialism]] under the influence of the Popular Front before his return to India.<ref>Pakistan: The praoblem of India, pg. ix</ref> When he left Paris there was a growing threat of politicized right-wing violence in the streets of the city, while on the left, there was the Popular Front pulling together Radicals (a centrist group), socialists and communists.

In 1938, on his return to India, Shaukat moved to 41-Rajpur Road in a rented house after his uncle died. Dar-as-Salam, the [[haveli]] of Dr. [[Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari]] was sold. Shaukat house at Rajpur Road was a shelter for political activists and progressive writers like [[Majaz]] and [[Suryakant Tripathi]]. Shaukat regularly helped [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI) with financial support due to his commitment towards socialism.<ref>Correspondence between Mahatma Gandhi and PC Joshi, PPH, 1947, p.9-10</ref> He drifted away from the CPI in 1939 when the demand of Pakistan surfaced and the left party supported it. Shaukat fought a losing battle organizing the Nationalist Muslims under the banner of ''Azad Muslim Board''. As the president of AMB he rejected the very idea of the two nation theory and its demand for the creation of Pakistan.

==Career==
As an [[Indian independence activist]] he actively participated in the [[Non-cooperation movement]]. After independence was achieved he was appointed to the position of Council in the Indian Embassy in [[Ankara]], [[Turkey]] in 1948.<ref>http://megassembly.gov.in/proceedings/1973/15-03-1973.htm</ref> In 1951, Ansari was elected to the first [[Lok Sabha]] from [[Bidar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bidar]], Hyderabad State. As a member of [[Parliament]], he served on the Advisory Committee for External Affairs. In 1954 and 1955, he went to the [[United Nations]] as member of the Indian delegation. In 1957, Dr Ansari went to [[Laos]] as Chairman of the [[International Control Commission]]. From July 1958 to September 1960 he served in similar capacity on the [[International Control Commission]] in Vietnam. He represented India at the [[International Labour Conference]] in Geneva in 1955. In 1960, he was appointed Ambassador of India to Sudan and Congo. He assumed office as [[Governor of Odisha|Governor of Orissa]] on 31 January 1968 and held the post until 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rajbhavanorissa.gov.in/formergovernor.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-02-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013001525/http://www.rajbhavanorissa.gov.in/formergovernor.asp |archivedate=13 October 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Agreeing with the request of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], he contested [[Second Lok Sabha]] general election in 1957 from his native [[Rasra]] Constituency but lost to [[Sarjoo Pandey]], the candidate from [[Communist Party of India]]. In this electoral contest former [[Prime Minister of India]] [[Chandra Shekhar]] secured the third spot garnering Twenty percent of the total votes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Haunted-by-poll-debacle-in-1957-former-PM-changed-his-parliamentary-constituency/articleshow/34983935.cms|publisher=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|title=Haunted by poll debacle in 1957, former PM changed his parliamentary Constituency|accessdate=25 May 2019}}</ref>

==Position held==
* Council, Indian Embassy in Turkey, 1947–48
* Member, Delhi University Court, 1947—49
* Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), [[Bidar]] 1951-1957
* Member of the Indian Delegation to the United Nations, 1954, 1955
* Chairman, International Commission for Supervision and Control, Laos and Vietnam 1957 - 1960
* Ambassador to Sudan, 1960
* Ambassador to Congo, 1960
* Governor of Odisha, 1968-71<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKa9khFcKmQC&q=Dr+Shaukatullah+Shah+Ansari+Paris&pg=PA52|title=Encyclopaedia of Islamic Science and Scientists: A-H|isbn=9788182200586|accessdate=25 May 2019|last1=Zaki Kirmani|first1=M.|last2=Singh|first2=Nagendra Kr|year=2005}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Syed Akbaruddin]]

==References==
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