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{{Infobox officeholder
| office1 = [[Governor of Sindh|1st Governor of Sindh]]
| term_start1 = 15 August 1947
| term_end1 = 4 October 1948
| predecessor1 = Position Established
| successor1 = [[Shaikh Din Muhammad]]
| office2 = 1st & 5th [[Chief Minister of Sindh|Premier of Sindh]]
| term_start2 = 28 April 1937
| term_end2 = 23 March 1938
| predecessor2 = Position Established
| successor2 = [[Allah Bux Soomro]]
| office3 =
| term_start3 = October 14, 1942
| term_end3 = August 14, 1947
| predecessor3 = [[Allah Bux Soomro]]
| successor3 = [[Muhammad Ayub Khuhro]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Khan|first1=Jan|title=Wrongs in the first year of Pakistan|url=http://tns.thenews.com.pk/wrongs-in-the-first-year-pakistan/|language=en}}</ref>
| name = Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
| image =
| caption = Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah in his last days
| birth_date = January 1879<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah Collection |url=http://www.sindharchives.gov.pk/ghulam_hussain_hidayatullah.aspx |website=sindharchives.gov.pk |publisher=Sindh Archives |access-date=6 April 2019}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Shikarpur, Sindh]], British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|10|4|1879|1|1|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Sughra Begum]]|1940}}
| governor-general1 = [[Mohammad Ali Jinnah]]<br>[[Khawaja Nazimuddin]]
}}
'''Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah''' [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] ({{lang-ur| غلام حسین هدايت الله }}, {{lang-sd|غلام حسين هدايت الله}}; January 1879 – 4 October 1948)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hidayatullah|first1=G.H.|title=Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah|url=http://storyofpakistan.com/sir-ghulam-hussain-hidayatullah|website=Story of Pakistan|date=4 January 2008|location=[[Shikarpur, Sindh|Shikarpur]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hidayat|first1=Ahmed|title=Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah – Brief Profile|date=12 February 2012|url=http://www.awamipolitics.com/sir-ghulam-hussain-hidayatullah-brief-profile-2792.html|language=en}}</ref> was a [[colonial India]]n and [[Pakistani]] politician from Sindh. He held several offices in Sindh including 1st [[Chief Minister of Sindh|Chief Minister]] (1937–1938) and being re-elected as 5th [[Chief Minister of Sindh|Chief Minister]] (1942–1947).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Safi|first1=Khan|title=Sir ghulam hussain hidayatullah|url=http://www.pakistan.web.pk/threads/sir-ghulam-hussain-hidayatullah.2235/|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education==

Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah was born in 1879 in [[Shikarpur, Sindh]] and received his education from Shikarpur High School, Sindh Madressah, Karachi, D. J. Sindh College, Karachi and Government Law College, Bombay.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Misaal|first1=Ali|title=Sindh politicians|url=http://www.entertainmentillustratedmagazine.com/q/Sindh%20politicians|website=Entertainmentillustratedmagazine|pages=1–2|language=en|access-date=2015-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132132/http://www.entertainmentillustratedmagazine.com/q/Sindh%20politicians|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hidayatullah|first1=Ghulam Hussain|title=Sindh politicians|url=http://www.androidillustrated.com/q/Sindh_politicians|website=androidillustrated|access-date=8 November 2015|language=en}}</ref>

==Career==

After completing his LL.B. in 1902, he started his legal practice in Hyderabad Sindh. He started his public career as Vice President of the Hyderabad Municipality. Hidayatullah was also the first Non-official President of the Hyderabad District Board. In 1921 he became a Member of the Bombay Legislative Council.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} In the same year, he was appointed a Minister in the Bombay Government, an office which he occupied till 1928 when he was made a Member of the Executive council of the Governor of Bombay. He served in this capacity until 1934. He received the title of ''[[Khan Bahadur]]'' from the British government, which also knighted him in the [[1926 New Year Honours]] and further appointed him a Knight Commander of the [[Most Exalted Order of the Star of India]] (KCSI) in the [[1933 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33119 |date=29 December 1925|page=3|supp=y }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33119 |date=2 June 1933|page=3803|supp=y }}</ref>

Hidayatullah served as the [[Chief Minister of Sindh]] for two separate terms.<ref name="Naqvi2017">{{cite web |last1=Naqvi |first1=Raza |title=Meet the Muslim freedom fighters who strongly opposed the Partition of India |url=https://www.inuth.com/india/meet-the-muslim-freedom-fighters-who-strongly-opposed-the-partition-of-india/ |publisher=IE Online Media Services |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=en |date=14 August 2017}}</ref> The first term was 28 April 1937 to 23 March 1938. The second term was 7 March 1941 to 14 October 1947, and served the longest tenure that any chief minister has so far held.

As a Minister, Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah was associated with the famous 'Sukkur Barrage project' which contributed so much to the prosperity of Sindh in later years. Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, along with Khan Bahadur Muhammad Ayub Khuhro, Syed Miran Shah and Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, represented Sindh in the Round Table Conferences in London. They convinced the Chairman of the 'Committee on Sindh' that Sindh was not to be a deficit province and had sufficient revenue and administrative capability to be a full-fledged province. Sindh was separated from Bombay and its first assembly came into being in 1937.

After the separation of Sindh from Bombay, Sir Ghulam Hussain became the first Chief Minister and remained so until 1947 with two short breaks when Allah Bux Soomro and Mir Bande Ali Talpur had formed their Governments. He became the Chief Minister of Sindh three times; Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah was [[opposition to the partition of India|opposed to the partition of India]].<ref name="Naqvi2017"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Sir Geuulam Eiussain on Partition|journal=The Indian Review |date=1940 |volume=41 |issue=1–6 |page=315 |language=en |quote=Opposing the Muslim League Scheme for the partition of India on financial and other grounds, Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, former Minister, says that the attachment to the place of one's birth ...}}</ref>

In 1938, the Sindh Assembly passed a resolution demanding a separate homeland for the Muslims of India. In 1943, the Sindh Government became the first Provincial Assembly of the sub-continent to pass an official resolution in favour of the creation of Pakistan. When the Muslim League in 1946 decided on a policy of renunciation of titles conferred by the British Government, Sir Ghulam renounced his British titles and honorifics.

After the [[partition of India]] and creation of Pakistan, he became the first [[Governor of Sindh]] from 14 August 1947 to 4 October 1948. Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah earned the unique distinction of being the only Pakistani Governor of a Province in Pakistan as all other Governors were British.

Within a month of the passing away of the Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah the "Grand Old Man of Sindh" died in Karachi on 4 October 1948.

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