Background
Shaukat Ali was born in 1873 in Rampur state in what is today Uttar Pradesh.
Shaukat Ali was born in 1873 in Rampur state in what is today Uttar Pradesh.
He was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University.
He is the brother of Mohammad Ali Jouhar. He was extremely fond of playing cricket, captaining the university team Ali served in the civil service of the United Provinces of Oudh and Agra from 1896 to 1913.
In 1919, while jailed for publishing what the British charged as seditious materials and organizing protests, he was elected as the last president of the Khilafat conference.
He was re-arrested and imprisoned from 1921 to 1923 for his support to Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress during the Non-Cooperation Movement (1919–1922). In March 1922, he was in Rajkot jail.
To this end, he supplied guns to Sachindranath Sanyal. Attended the first and second Round Table Conferences in London.
Shaukat Ali died on 4 January 1939.
He served as member of the Central Assembly from 1934 to 1938.