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{{Short description|Indian civil servant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Abul Hasan Quraishi
| honorific_suffix = [[Civil Service]] Government of India, Government of Pakistan
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1908|07|01}}
| birth_place = [[Ballia, Uttar Pradesh]], [[British India]]
| death_date = unknown (after 14 August 1947)
| death_place = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
| profession = civil servant
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'''Abul Hasan Quraishi''' (born 1 July 1908, date of death unknown) was a member of the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] (Bengal cadre). He had a long and distinct career in the [[Civil Service]] by serving the governments in [[India]] and the newly born [[Pakistan]] government after the partition of India.

==Early life==
Abul Hasan Quraishi was born on 1 July 1908 at Rasra [[Ballia district|Ballia]].<ref name="our publication1">Abul Hasan Quraishi, B.A.{{cite book|title=India Office List for 1935|publisher= Harrison|access-date= 2015-10-04|page=818|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533074/page/n855/mode/2up}}</ref> He was born to parents ( father Abdul Hameed Rasra, [[Ballia]] Uttar Pradesh India ) who belonged to the historic local Muslim community [[Iraqi Biradari]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Alhaj|first=Mohammad Hanif|title=Mardam Shumari.pdf|url=https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dl5q9nluGUWuc8BVjZY1BvljlYN2j2lZ|access-date=3 July 2022|page=42}}</ref>
He received early education at Government High School Ballia, Queen's Intermediate College, Benaras, and completed B.A. degree from [[Allahabad University]] (1927). Early in 1933, he went to [[London]] to research administrative skills at the [[School of Oriental Studies]] (now the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]]).<ref name="our publication1"/>

==Career==
In January 1933 Quraishi passed the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] examination. After a probation period in [[London]], as mentioned above, he joined the Indian civil service on 5th Oct 1933 and arrived in India on Nov. 1933. He was appointed at [[Murshidabad]] in [[Bengal]], [[India]] as Assistant Magistrate and Collector.<ref name="our publication1"/><ref>{{cite web|title=History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers| date=26 December 2023 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LGsAAAAMAAJ&dq=indian+civil+service+1933+and+abul+hasan+quraishi&pg=PA115|page=115|access-date=20 Dec 2023}}</ref>
He was promoted as joint magistrate and sub-divisional officer, in July 1935. He became a special officer, in the finance department in Nov 1937. In Jan 1942 he became district magistrate and collector, Jan. 1942. Afterward, in Oct 1944, he was sent to the [[Government of India]] with a secretary position under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry/ or department under the aforementioned ministry, holding the office until 1946.<ref>Abul Quraishi ICS, chapter-record of Services {{cite book|title=The India Office And Burma Office List 1945|publisher=London His Majesty’s Stationery Office|access-date=2015-08-04|page=306|url=https://www.archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282202/page/n313/mode/2up}}</ref>{{rp|306}} By the end of 1946, 90-odd [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] officers from the Muslim community inclined to have gone on to serve independent Pakistan except for a few with their names as reported.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Indian Muslim Society and Economy|author=OMAR KHALIDI|pages=177–202|journal=Oriente Moderno |date=26 January 2024 |volume=23 (84) |issue=1 |publisher= Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino|jstor=25817924 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25817924}}</ref>
Many of them were from northern India or the Bengal cadre of the ICS (including the aforementioned Quraishi) and formed the core of a new central service called the [[Pakistan Administrative Service]] (PAS).<ref>{{cite news |title=Hall of fame: The ICS served Pakistan well |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/656476/hall-of-fame-the-ics-served-pakistan-well
|access-date= 4 September 2011}} retrieved 20 Dec 2023</ref>

==Death==
Quraishi died in [[Karachi]], Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|title=iraqibiradripakistan|url=http://iraqibiradripakistan.info/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110102329/http://iraqibiradripakistan.info/ |archive-date=10 November 2018 }} Directory, Federal Area, retrieved 20 Oct 2023</ref>

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