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{{Short description|1937 cabinet in the Indian province of Assam}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2026}}

{{Infobox government cabinet
| date_formed = 1 April 1937
| date_dissolved = 19 September 1938
| government_head = [[Muhammed Saadulah]]
| state_head = [[Robert Reid (civil servant)|Robert Reid]] <br>[[Henry Joseph Twynam]]
| state_head_title = Governor
| government_head_title = Prime Minister
| political_parties = *'''[[Assam Valley Party]]'''
*'''[[All-India Muslim League]]'''
| predecessor =
| successor = [[First Bordoloi ministry (Assam Province)|Bordoloi I]]
| image = Syed Saadulla.jpg
| election = [[1937 Indian provincial elections|1937]]
}}

The '''First Saadulah provincial government''' was the first Cabinet of [[Assam Province]] headed by [[Chief Minister of Assam|Prime Minister of Assam]] [[Muhammed Saadulah]] from 1937 to 1938.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saadulah government |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/50847/10/10_chapter%201.pdf}}</ref> The government was formed following the [[1937 Indian provincial elections]], and consisted of two coalition-cabinets.<ref name=":0" />

== History ==
Following the [[Government of India Act 1935]] and the [[1937 Indian provincial elections]], the [[Indian National Congress]] won 33 out of the 108 seats in the house and formed the largest party. However, since non-acceptance on forming a ministry was a Congress policy, [[Muhammed Saadulah]] formed a coalition ministry.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Baruah |first=Amlan |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Assam_State_Gazetteer/xy5uAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Assam State Gazetteer |last2=Choudhury |first2=S. B. Roy |date=1999 |publisher=Editor-in-Chief, District Gazetteers, Government of Assam |language=en}}</ref>

In September 1938, the government faced pressure for its communal policies and its neglect of the "people of the soil", and in order to avoid a defeat in a [[Motion of no confidence|motion of no-confidence]], Saadulah resigned.<ref name=":1" />

== Ministers (1937) ==

=== Cabinet ===
The first coalition cabinet lasted from 1 April 1937 to 4 February 1938.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Shibly |first=Atful Hye |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Abdul_Matin_Chaudhury_1895_1948/ua3y6g7IHMAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Abdul Matin Chaudhury (1895-1948): Trusted Lieutenant of Mohammad Ali Jinnah |date=2011 |publisher=Juned Ahmed Choudhury |isbn=978-984-33-2323-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Reed |first=Sir Stanley |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Indian_Year_Book/yagSAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=Abu%20Nasr%20Waheed%20education%20minister |title=Indian Year Book |date=1937 |publisher=Bennett, Coleman. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Research |first=North-East India Council for Social Science |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Journal_of_the_North_East_India_Coun/g-LZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=Abu%20Nasr%20Waheed%20education%20minister |title=The Journal of the North-East India Council for Social Science Research |date=1992 |publisher=B. D. Ray |language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Portfolios
!Party
|-
|[[Muhammed Saadulah]]
Prime Minister
|
* Home
* Finance
* Public Works Department
|[[All-India Muslim League|All-India Muslim league]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Cabinet Ministers'''
|-
|[[Abu Nasr Waheed|Abu Nasar Muhammad Waheed]]
|
* Education
|United Muslim Party
|-
|[[James Joy Mohan Nichols Roy]]
|
* Local self-government
* Excise
|Progressive Party (Assam)
|-
|[[Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri]]
|
* Revenue
* Judicial
* General
|United People's Party
|-
|[[Ali Haider Khan]]
|
* Agriculture
* Industries
* Cooperative societies
* Registration
|United Muslim Party
|}

== Ministers (1938) ==

=== Cabinet ===
[[File:Saadullah cabinet.jpg|thumb|Swearing-in of 2nd Coalition Saadulluh Ministry at Shillong. Standing (l to r) J.J.M. Nichols-Roy, Syed Sir Mohammad Saadullah, Abdul Matin Chaudhury. Seated (l to r) Rohini Kumar Choudhury, Munawar Ali, Akshay Kumar Das.]]
The second coalition cabinet lasted from 5 February 1938 to 18 September 1938.<ref name=":0" /> There were no Parliamentary Secretaries.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Indian_Information_Series/t2ToWPIH2ugC?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=Rohini%20Kumar%20Chaudhuri%20revenue |title=Indian Information Series |date=1938 |language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Portfolios
!Party
|-
|[[Muhammed Saadulah]]
Prime Minister
|
* Finance
* Home
* Public Works
|[[All-India Muslim League|All-India Muslim league]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Cabinet Ministers'''
|-
|[[James Joy Mohan Nichols Roy]]
|
* Local self-government
* Medicine
|Progressive Party (Assam)
|-
|[[Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri]]
|
* Revenue
* Forest
|Hindu People's Party
|-
|[[Munawwar Ali]]
|
* Education
* Excise
|[[All-India Muslim League|All-India Muslim league]]
|-
|[[Abdul Matin Chaudhury|Abdul Martin Choudhury]]
|
* Agriculture
* Industries
* Cooperative societies
* Judicial
|[[All-India Muslim League|All-India Muslim league]]
|-
|[[Akshay Kumar Das]]
|
* Registration
* Legislative
* General department
* Hindu
* Kaibartta (scheduled caste)
|Constitutionalist
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Template:Assam ministries}}
[[Category:Assam ministries]]
[[Category:1937 establishments in India]]

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Luisa35774 at 12:07, 2 May 2026