:''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'',Edinburgh Gazette, 8 June 1928
/ref> PC (1869–1941) was an Indian politician. He served as the

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from 18 March 1937 to September 1941.

Early life

Hydari was born on 8 November 1869 into a Sulaymani Bohra community of

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

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Career

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

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state in the Deccan region of south-central 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 the ...

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

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. He also represented Hyderabad at the First Round Table Conference held in London during November 1930 – January 1931. In January 1936, he was appointed a member of the

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. In 1941, he was appointed as a member of the

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. Hydari was pivotal in the foundation of the

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, working to obtain the former estate of the Forest Research Institute, in

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, from the government on favourable terms for the site of the school. Of the four original houses Hyderabad House was named after Akbar Hydari, who secured a contribution from

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's government.

Family

He was the father of Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari through his wife Amina Hydari of the

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. His grand daughter, Habiba Hydari married the Goan painter,

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. His grand-granddaughter is actress

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Honours

Hydari was knighted by the British government in the 1928 Birthday Honours.Gunther, John
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READ BOOKS, 2007, pp. 471-472 and was formally invested with his knighthood at Hyderabad on 17 December 1929 by the Viceroy, the

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.Edinburgh Gazette, 11 February 1930
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