Syed Ali Imam

He was born on 11 February 1869 in Karai Parsari village, near Fatuha, Bihar, the son of Nawab Syed Imdad Imam, and the elder brother of Syed Hasan Imam ¹. In 1887 he went to London to study law and was called to the English bar by the Middle Temple, returning to India in 1890 ¹. He sat on the Bihar District Board and, in 1909, was appointed to the Bengal Legislative Council ¹.

Knighted in 1908, he became the second Indian to hold the post of law member of the Government of India, succeeding Satyendra P. Sinha in November 1910, and he was responsible for persuading the government to move the capital from Kolkata to Delhi ¹. In 1917 he was appointed a justice of the Patna High Court; he later served as Chief Minister (Prime Minister) of Hyderabad State, resumed private practice in 1920, and joined the Indian independence movement ¹. He also served as a President of the Muslim League ¹.

The Urdu article adds that Iqbal dedicated the first edition of his Asrar-i-Khudi to Ali Imam, later removing the dedication from subsequent printings, and that the two travelled together by ship on Iqbal's return from the Round Table Conference ².

He died at Ranchi on 31 October 1932 and was buried at Kokar Chowk on the Hazaribagh road ¹. The Urdu article dates the death 27 October 1932 ²; the museum follows the English article's lead and infobox and records the variant in its data.

No fetched text names a school for Syed Ali Imam himself, and Wikidata carries no religion statement for him ³. His brother Hasan Imam is attested in his own article as a Shia Muslim, but a brother's faith is family background, not this man's attestation, so the museum's data record leaves his school unknown.

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