Sadath Ali Khan | |
Native Name: | instead.--> |
Term Start2: | 1952 |
Term End2: | 1957 |
Constituency2: | Ibrahimpatnam |
Term Start3: | 1957 |
Term End3: | 1962 |
Constituency3: | Warangal |
Successor3: | Bakar Ali Mirza |
Predecessor3: | Pendyal Raghava Rao |
Office: | Ambassador of India to Turkey |
Term Start: | March 1966 |
Term End: | February 1967 |
Office1: | Ambassador of India to Iraq |
Term Start1: | 1962 |
Term End1: | 1965 |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1919 |
Birth Place: | Hyderabad, India |
Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
Spouse: | Sakina Begum |
Sadath Ali Khan was an Indian political and member of first and second Lok Sabha. He represented Warangal parliamentary constituency from 1952 to 1962. A member of the Indian National Congress, he also served as a secretary to the government of India from 1953 to 57.
He later served as the Indian Ambassador to Iraq (1962-1965)[1] and Turkey (1966-1967).[2] He died during his tenure in Turkey.
He was born to Nawab Zain Yar Jung and Begum Ruqqaiya on 16 September 1916 in Hyderabad, India.[3] He studied at Nizam College, Hyderabad and later at Oxford University. As a writer and journalist, he wrote poems in Urdu and English, and translated some uncertain literary works of English into Urdu. He wrote his memoirs, Brief Thanksgiving, in 1959.
He was married to Sakina Begum, with whom he had a son, Shujaat, and a daughter, Suroor.[4]