Amina Hydari (1878–1939) was an Indian social worker. In 1908, she received the

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal The Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India was a medal awarded by the Emperor/Empress of India between 1900 and 1947, to "any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex ... who shall have distinguished himself (o ...

, the first woman recipient, for her work during the

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. The wife of former Prime Minister of

Kingdom of Hyderabad Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

Akbar Hydari :''To be distinguished from his son who was the Governor of Assam, Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari.'' Sir Muhammad Akbar Nazar Ali Hydari, ''Sadr ul-Maham'', His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (8 November 1869 – November 1941) was an ...

, she founded the Lady Hydari Club in 1929 and Mahboobia Girls School, the first girls' school in the State. Her uncle was the lawyer and

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Badruddin Tyabji Badruddin Tyabji (10 October 1844 – 19 August 1906) was an Indian lawyer, activist and politician during British Raj. Tyabji was the first Indian to practice as a barrister of the High Court of Bombay who served as the third President of ...

Social life

She founded the Lady Hydari Club in 1929 exclusively for women.

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1878 births 1939 deaths Social workers Indian Ismailis Sulaymani Bohras Women from Hyderabad State People from Hyderabad State 19th-century Indian educators 20th-century Indian educators Women educators from Andhra Pradesh Educators from Andhra Pradesh 19th-century women educators 20th-century women educators Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal {{India-bio-stub Tyabji family Social workers in British India

Social life

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