Chaudhari Hyder Hussein

On 23^rd of April 1943, Shri Nathji arrived at Dehradun Station with Mateshwari and the children. Jagdish, the son of G.P. Bhatt was also with them. Shri Nathji met Chaudhari Hyder Hussain  at the station as a coincidence. When he asked Shri Nathji were He would be staying in Mussoorie, Shri Nathji replied: “I haven’t decided as yet”. There upon Hyder Hussain immediately offered his home at Mussorie and Shri Nathji considered staying there for a while. The name of that house was Dilaram Estate. It was there in Dilaram Estate that Shri Nathji’s arm began to gradually and miraculously heal itself, even though it was in unbearable pain at that time.

Chaudhari Hyder Hussein had reat love for Shri Nathji and often said:

“He radiated love. Nay, he is all love form head to foot.”

So great was his faith in Shree Nathji that once when the clouds had loomed large at his party he had prayed to Shri Nathji saying:

“Hazrat Dua Farmaayiye. Give thy blessings to stop the rain!” His son Ashar Hussain was also devoted to Shri Nathji. He attended Shri Nathji's birthday when He was in London in 1963

Chaudhry Hyder Husain was born in Garhi Bhilwal, district Bara Banki, Uttar Pradesh. His first education was in the Church Mission School, Lucknow. After Matriculation he entered the Canning College, Lucknow. Later on he went to M. A. O. College, Aligarh. Thereafter he went to England for further studies and entered St. Catherine's College, Oxford, where he took honours in Jurisprudence. He was thus a B. C. L. of Oxford. He was called to the Bar by the Hon'ble Society of Lincoln's Inn, London on June 24, 1913. On his return to India after call to the Bar he got himself enrolled in the High Court at Allahabad but he preferred to set up his practice in Lucknow. He had his first training with Mirza Sami Ullah Beg Saheb. When Mirza Sami Ullah Beg left for Hyderabad as Chief Justice of Nizam's High Court in 1918, he worked as junior to the late Mr. A. P. Sen. In the meantime he picked up a good independent practice and in time he got into a very lucrative practice which increased year after year. He appeared in many important cases under the Oudh Estates Act (Taluqdari Law) both in the original side of the Chief Court and in the appellate side of the then Judicial Commissioner's Court and the Chief Court of Oudh.(In picture is the building of the High Court in Lucknow were he practiced)  He was a Reader in the Faculty of Law in the Lucknow University from its inception in 1921 up to 1934. He was member of the Courts of the Lucknow and Aligarh Universities. He entered public life without neglecting his work as a legal practitioner. He was a member of the then Legislative Assembly of U. P. representing Rae Bareli Constituency from 1937 until the dissolution of the Assembly. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly for framing the Constitution of India and later became member of the Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1957. Though he went to the Legislatures with the backing of Congress, he was independent and did not allow his activities to be circumscribed by- party politics. As a member of the Lok Sabha, he went to China with the Parliamentary delegation headed by the then Speaker Sri' Ananta Swami Ayengar. He was selected as a member of Parliamentary Delegation which went to Russia but he could not avail of the opportunity due to serious illness of his wife who unfortunately died shortly after. He was connected with many educational, social, cultural and political associations either as a member, office bearer or President. In fact he was connected with almost every liberal association, social, political or cultural. He was President of the school for the Blind, Lucknow. He was a very generous man and contributed liberally to charitable and educational institutions without any discrimination of caste, creed and colour. He was a founder member of the Rotary Club, Lucknow whereof he later became the President. He also became the Governor of the area wherein Lucknow is situate. As a Rotary Governor he attended the Rotary International meeting at San Fransisco, U. S. A. He followed the ideal of Rotary "service above self" literally. He was a prominent member of the Avadh Bar Association, Lucknow and was its Vice-President for some time and after the death of Chowdhari Niamat Ullah in 1961 he was unanimously elected President-a position which he occupied until his death on July 24, 1966. He was one of the leading lawyers who spearheaded civil reforms and strove hard to maintain communal harmony. Chaudhri Hyder Hussein was a leading figure in the Chief Court of Oudh in Lucknow. He had a huge volume of work, both civil and administrative. He had combined East and Went in his style of living as he wore Saville Row tailored suits and at times “Lucknowi Angrakha”. Irrespective of his busy schedule he found time to teach law as a lecturer at Lucknow University. He also participated in politics. For two terms he was member of Parliement. He was a prominent social figure both at Lucknow and Mussoorie were he spent his vacations. and many famous lawyers started there law practice at Lucknow under the apprintenship of Chaudhri Hyder Hussein, like Nirmal Chandra Chaturvedi  who joined his chambers in 1934 soon after he graduated in law.

Oudh Weekly Notes (O. W. N.) were published from 1924 onwards By Chaudhri Hyder Hussain. It started with  Mr. A. P. Sen, President of the Oudh Bar Association, as Editor and Chaudhari Hyder Husain Barrister-at-law, the present President of the same association as Joint Editor. After the death of Mr. A. P. Sen, in 1934- Chaudhari Hyder Husain became Chief Editor and continued the publication up to the amalgamation of the Chief Court with the High Court at Allahabad. His publications rendered very valuable assistance to the Bar and Bench, as they published decisions earlier than the authorised reports" Oudh Cases" and sometimes gave arguments of counsel in the cases reported. They also published decisions of the Board of Revenue and Privy Council. They also had notes and comments of cases decided by the Court and statutes and articles on important questions of law, and references to Judges on their elevation and retirement, and obituary notes on Judges and lawyers.

 He had a genial personality, was good friend and a good" patriot. Lucknow Bar celebrated his Golden Jubilee on the completion of his fifty years' practice in the bar at a dinner attended by His Excellency the Governor Sri Bishwanath Das, the Chief Minister, U. P. and the Judges of the High Court, and many other distinguished citizens. His name is mentioned in the list of dignitaries who are the Makers of Modern Lucknow. (Pl see link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makers_of_Modern_Lucknow )