Mahommedali Currim Chagla
Mahommedali Currim Chagla (born September 30, 1900 in Bombay , † February 9, 1981 ibid) was an Indian lawyer , diplomat and politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), the President of the Bombay High Court , ambassador in various states as well as education and foreign ministers India was.
Life
Lawyer and judge
After attending school, Chagla completed a law degree and worked as a lawyer after being admitted to the bar . In 1927 he took over a professorship in law at the Government Law College (GLC) in Bombay. In addition, he was secretary of the chairman of the Muslim League Muhammad Ali Jinnah , one of the most famous freedom fighters in British India and later founder of Pakistan . In 1928, Motilal Nehru was from the Indian National Congress with the drafting of a constitution for India to draw up an Indian counter-position to the report of the Simon Commission chaired by John Allsebrook Simon , which had presented a constitutional reform for British India in 1927. The Nehru Report envisaged largely secularism for India, which Jinnah rejected. Chagla then gave up his support and work for Jinnah and the Muslim League. He then worked again as a lawyer before he was appointed judge on the Bombay High Court , the supreme court of Bombay in 1941 .
Chagla was after the sovereignty of India from the United Kingdom in 1947 President of the Bombay High Court and held this office until 1958. He also served from October 14 to December 10, 1956 as Governor of Bombay .
Ambassadors and ministers
He was then nominated for a judge's office at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 1957 , but did not take up this post because he was ambassador to the USA between 1958 and 1961 . At the same time he was accredited as ambassador to Cuba and as ambassador to Mexico .
In April 1962 he was appointed High Commissioner in the United Kingdom and worked there until September 1963. At the same time he was accredited as Ambassador to Ireland from April 1962 to September 1963 .
In September 1963, Chagla was appointed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as Minister of Education (Union Minister for Education) in his cabinet and also held this ministerial post in the cabinets of his successors Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi . During the Kashmir conflict , he was head of the Delagtion of India at the United Nations Security Council in New York City from 1964 to 1965 .
On November 14, 1966, Prime Minister Gandhi appointed him to succeed Sardar Swaran Singh as Union Minister for External Affairs of India . Soon after, however, he became one of the most ardent critics of the Prime Minister's increasingly authoritarian style of government and was finally dismissed as Foreign Minister on September 5, 1967, after which the Prime Minister temporarily took over this office herself.
In 1978 he was awarded the national UNESCO prize for his outstanding services to human rights.
Publications
- The Individual and the State , 1961
- To Ambassador Speaks. A Collection of Speeches , 1962
- Roses in December , autobiography, 1973, reprinted 1978
Web links
- Short biography in rulers.org
- MC Chagla: A Titan Among the Nationalists (boloji.com)
- Bibliography ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chagla, Mahommedali Currim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian judge, ambassador and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bombay |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1981 |
| Place of death | Bombay |