Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

He was born on 18 February 1894 at the village of Masauli in Barabanki district, the eldest of five brothers; he studied at the Muslim Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh ¹². He joined the Khilafat and non-cooperation movements from 1920, was arrested in the struggles of the early 1930s, and served as the United Provinces' minister for revenue and jails in the 1937 provincial government ¹. In April 1946 he became Home Minister of the United Provinces ¹.

From 15 August 1947 to 15 April 1952 he served as the first Union Minister of Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government ¹. From 13 May 1952 he held the food and agriculture portfolio, through the years of food scarcity and rationing ¹. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly and a Member of Parliament for Bahraich ¹. A memoir, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai: His Life and Work, was written by Ajit Prasad Jain in 1965 ¹.

The sources place him in Muslim public life — educated at the Anglo-Oriental College, active in the Khilafat movement, filed by the English article under Indian Muslims and Muslim socialists ¹, and described by the Urdu article as sometimes called an Islamic socialist ² — but no source names a denomination or legal school for him: the English officeholder infobox carries no religion field, and Wikidata gives Islam only ³. An ideology and movement participation are not school attestations, so the museum's data record leaves his school unrecorded under the two-source rule, the plain Khan configuration.

He died in office at Delhi on 24 October 1954 ¹.

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