A. R. Sahu Khan | |
Office1: | Nominated Member of the Legislative Council |
Term1: | 1944–1947 |
Death Date: | 1979 (aged 78) |
Death Place: | Suva, Fiji |
Abdul Rahman Sahu Khan (died 1979) was an Indo-Fijian civil servant and politician. He served as a nominated member of the Legislative Council between 1944 and 1947.
Sahu Khan joined the Fijian civil service, working as a law clerk. Following the outbreak of World War II, he was one of the Indo-Fijian members elected to the colony's Central War Committee in 1942.[1] In 1944 he became a founding board member of the Fiji Public Servants' Association.[2]
After the July 1944 elections, he was appointed to the Legislative Council by Acting Governor John Fearns Nicoll as one of the two nominated Indo-Fijian members.[3] He later became a member of the National Federation Party.[4] He served in the Council until 1947, and in 1950 he was made a justice of the peace.[5] He later became president of the Muslim Association of Fiji.[6] He contested the 1963 Legislative Council elections in the Southern constituency, but received only 498 votes and lost his deposit.[7]
Sahu Khan's brother Abdul Habib also served as an MLC between 1957 and 1963.[8] He died in Suva in 1979 at the age of 78, survived by his wife and eight children.[4]