Fazl-I-Husain

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Other names

Mian Fazl-i-Husain

Fazli Husain

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Date of birth
City of birth
Peshawar, Punjab
Country of birth
India
Date of death
Date of 1st arrival in Britain
Dates of time spent in Britain

1898-1901

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About

Fazl-i-Husain travelled to Britain in 1898 to further his education. He was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1899 and graduated with a BA in 1901. He had intended to enter the Indian Civil Service (ICS) but was unsuccessful in the exams. He studied Oriental languages and law at Cambridge and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1901. Husain was elected President of the Cambridge Majlis in January 1901 and involved in writing a telegram of condolence to Edward VII upon the death of Queen Victoria.

Husain returned to the Punjab in 1901 and set up a law practice in Sialkot. He then practised at the Punjab High Court in Lahore until 1920. He was also actively involved with the Punjab branch of the Muslim League and became a Minister in the Punjab Government, 1921-30. He then began to break away from Jinnah and the Muslim League to build up the Unionist Party in Punjab. He was a member of the Viceroy's Council, 1929-35, and died in 1936.

Connections

C. F. Andrews, Mohammad Iqbal, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sarojini Naidu, Firoz Khan Noon, Abdullah Yusuf Ali.

Organizations
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Secondary works

Ahmad, Waheed (ed.), Letters of Mian Fazl-i-Husain (Lahore: Research Society of Pakistan, 1976)

Husain, M. Azim, Fazl-i-Husain: A Political Biography (Bombay: Longmans Green, 1946)

Moore, R. J., The Crisis of Indian Unity 1917-1940 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974)

Page, D. J. A., 'Prelude to Partition: All-India Moslem Politics, 1920-32', unpublished DPhil thesis (University of Oxford, 1974)

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Archive source

Mss Eur E352, private papers, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras