Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (14 August 1924 – 7 February 2014) was a civil servant, governor of the states of

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Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...

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and

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and a chairman of the National Minorities Commission. Burney was an alumnus of the Bareilly College in Uttar Pradesh. He was an officer of the

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of the Orissa cadre where he went on to become the chief secretary of the state. He served as Home Secretary to the Government of India from February 1980 to August 1981. Between 1981 and 1984, he served as the governor of

and

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of ...

and from 1987 to 1988, as the

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and Haryana. He was also a member and later chairman of the Fourth and Fifth Minority Commissions from 1988 to 1992 and was the chancellor of the

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in Delhi from 1990 to 1995. Burney authored the work ''Iqbal: Poet – Patriot of India''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burney, S. M. H. 1924 births 20th-century Indian Muslims 2014 deaths Governors of Tripura Governors of Nagaland Governors of Haryana Governors of Manipur Governors of Himachal Pradesh Indian civil servants