:''To be distinguished from his son who was the Governor of Assam,

Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari : Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari KCIE, CSI (12 October 1894 – 28 December 1948) was an Indian civil servant and politician. He was the last British-appointed Governor of the province of Assam, who also continued in the role after Indian in ...

.'' Sir Muhammad Akbar Nazar Ali Hydari, ''Sadr ul-Maham'',Edinburgh Gazette, 8 June 1928
/ref> PC (8 November 1869 – November 1941) was an Indian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Hyderabad State from 18 March 1937 to September 1941.

Personal life

Hydari was born on 8 November 1869 into a

Sulaymani Bohra The Sulaymani branch of Tayyibi Isma'ilism is an Islamic community, of which around 70,000 members reside in Yemen, while a few thousand Sulaymani Bohras can be found in India. The Sulaymanis are sometimes headed by a ''Da'i al-Mutlaq'' from th ...

community of

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

. His father was Seth Nazar Ali Hydari, a businessman based in

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

. Hydari served in the Indian Audit and Accountancy Service before moving to

Hyderabad State 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 ...

where he became the finance minister and later the prime minister. He was largely responsible for the restoration of the

Ajanta Caves The Ajanta Caves are approximately thirty rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures des ...

. He also represented Hyderabad at the

First Round Table Conference The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–1932 were a series of peace conferences organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India. These started in November 1930 and ended in Dec ...

during November 1930 – January 1931. In January 1936, he was appointed a member of the

Privy Council of the United Kingdom The Privy Council (PC), officially His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises senior politicians who are current or former members of e ...

. He was appointed in 1941, he was appointed as a member of the

Viceroy's Executive Council The Viceroy's Executive Council was the cabinet of the government of British India headed by the Viceroy of India. It is also known as the Council of the Governor-General of India. It was transformed from an advisory council into a cabinet consistin ...

. He was the father of

through his wife Amina Hydari of the Tyabji family. His grand daughter, Habiba Hydari married the Goan painter, Mario Miranda.

Honours

Hydari was knighted by the British government in the 1928 Birthday Honours.Gunther, John
Inside Asia - 1942 War Edition
READ BOOKS, 2007, pp. 471-472 and was formally invested with his knighthood at Hyderabad on 17 December 1929 by the Viceroy, the Lord Irwin.Edinburgh Gazette, 11 February 1930
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The India List and India Office List for - Page 687 - Google Books
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Personal life

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