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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian educationist and diplomat (1920–2014)}}<br />
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| name = Syed Hamid<br />
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| birth_date = 28 March 1920<br />
| birth_place = [[Faizabad|Faizabad (UP)]]<br />
| death_date = 29 December 2014<br />
| death_place = New Delhi<br />
| spouse = Suraiyya Hamid<br />
| children = Samar, Saman and Faraz Hamid<br />
| alma_mater = [[Aligarh Muslim University]]<br />
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'''Syed Hamid''' (28 March 1920 – 29 December 2014<ref name=toid>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Eminent-Muslim-educationist-Saiyid-Hamid-dead/articleshow/45682694.cms|title=Eminent Muslim educationist Saiyid Hamid dead|newspaper=The Times of India |date=30 December 2014|accessdate=27 June 2023}}</ref>) was an Indian educationist and diplomat. He was a member of [[Indian Administrative Service]] and also served as the [[List of Vice-Chancellors of Aligarh Muslim University|Vice Chancellor]] of [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. He had also served in several important committees, including the Sachar Committee<ref>[http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/sites/upload_files/moma/files/pdfs/sachar_comm.pdf#page=6 Sachar Committee - members] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323154545/http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/sites/upload_files/moma/files/pdfs/sachar_comm.pdf |date=23 March 2014 }}</ref> set up by the UPA government to probe the social and economic conditions of the Indian Muslim community.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Syed Hamid was born in a Muslim family of Syed Mehdi Hasan and Sitarah Shahjahan Begum in [[Faizabad]] on 28 March 1920. The family was originally from [[Moradabad]]. Syed Mahdi Hasan was interested in history, literature and Islamic education.{{Citation needed|date=November 2015}} In 1931, Syed Hamid completed 6th grade from Moradabad Inter College and moved to Rampur where his father joined a new job in [[Rampur State|Estate of Rampur]]. Just after one year they moved back to Moradabad and completed his Intermediate (12th grade) from Moradabad Inter College in 1937. He completed his BA and MA from [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in English and enrolled for another MA in Persian.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Before he could complete his second MA, Hamid was selected for Uttar Pradesh' Provincial Civil Services in 1943. He could finally complete his MA in Persian in 1947, the year India got Independence. He served in the PCS till he joined the [[Indian Administrative Services]] (IAS) in 1949.<br />
Hamid served at various posts in the bureaucratic hierarchy both in Uttar Pradesh and in Delhi. From 1976 to 1980, he was the founder and chairman of the Staff Selection Committee. He retired in 1980 and was appointed the Vice Chancellor of his alma mater (AMU) in June 1980 where he served his full five years term.<br />
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He established [[Hamdard Public School, New Delhi]] in 1993.<br />
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In 1999, Hamid served as the Chancellor of the Delhi's [[Jamia Hamdard|Hamdard University]]. He also served as a member of several committees, including the management committee of the [[Shibli Academy|Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy]], Azamgarh.<br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
He died on 29 December 2014 at New Delhi.<ref name=toid/><br />
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In 2015 the Senior Secondary Schools Boys of [[Aligarh Muslim University]] was renamed as Syed Hamid Senior Secondary School Boys in his honour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=7972 |title=Aligarh Muslim University |access-date=18 April 2015 |archive-date=18 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418232538/http://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=7972 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The central library of Maulana Azad National Urdu University Gachibowli, Hyderabad is named after his name as Syed Hamid Central Library.<br />
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==Activities==<br />
Hamid was involved in some advisory capacity with dozens of educational institutions across the country.{{Citation needed|date=November 2015}}.<br />
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| title = [[List of Vice-Chancellors of Aligarh Muslim University|Vice-Chancellor of AMU]]<br />
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| after = [[Syed Hashim Ali]]<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Indian Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]<br />
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