Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari

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Sir (Muhammad Saleh) Akbar Hydari KCIE (1944), CSI (1941), CIE (1935) (born October 12, 1894 , † December 28, 1948 in Manipur State ) was an Indian member of the colonial administrative service. In the interim government in 1946 he was a minister. At the end of his life he became governor of Assam .

Youth, education and family

Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, usually known as his father Akbar Hydari , received his higher education at the University of Bombay , then at Balliol College, Oxford.

He was married to Sigrid geb. Wistling from Piteå, Sweden . They had a daughter and a son, Akbar Hydari (* 1919) businessman in Bombay and from 1970 consul general of Sweden there.

Life path

He entered the colonial rulers' Indian Civil Service in 1919 . His career began as a District Officer in the Madras Presidency . In 1924 he was appointed Undersecretary of State to Delhi in the Department of Education, Health and Lands . Three years later he was appointed agent to the governor-general in the crown colony of Ceylon , where he paid special attention to the workforce who had immigrated from India until 1929.

He spent the next two years as secretary of the newly formed Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. At the second round table in London in 1930 on constitutional reform , he was a member of the delegation for the princely states . At the third round table in 1931, his father, the Minister of Finance of Hyderabad , appointed him advisor to the delegation of that state.

This was followed by state secretary posts in New Delhi, first in the Department of Education, Health and Lands (1934–38), then in the Labor Department. At the beginning of World War II he was India's representative at the Eastern Group Supply Council. Then he was in the Foreign Ministry z. b. V. posed. Shortly before the end of the war in February 1945, he visited England as a member of the Supplies Mission.

In the Indian interim government in 1946 he was responsible for work, public buildings, energy supply, mines, propaganda, health and culture.

Assam

In January 1947 he was appointed governor for the still undivided Assam; he took up the post in May and kept it after independence until his death. During his tenure, the administrative split of the North-East Frontier Agency fell .

Immediately before independence, he concluded an agreement with the Naga National Council that secured nine points of autonomy for the Nagas . When this was broken, an independent Nagaland was declared on August 14, 1947. The first armed organization arose; the Indian army acted against them with extreme brutality. The misguided policy cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the region in the decades that followed.

Literature and Sources

  • Laureen Baillie (Ed.): Indian Biographical Archive. Munich sn, ISBN 3-598-34104-0
  • IS Jehu (Ed.): Indian & Pakistan Year Book & Who's Who. 1948

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sanjoy Hazarika: Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India's Northeast. New Delhi u. a. 1994, pp. 96f, 101
  2. ↑ cf. Separatist Organizations in Northeast India

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personal data
SURNAME Hydari, Muhammad Saleh Akbar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hydari, Akbar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian member of the colonial administrative service
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1894
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1948
Place of death Manipur