Mir Taher Ali Khan

Mir Taher Ali Khan (1904 – 1981) was a distinguished linguistic scholar and professor in European languages from the city of Hyderabad in India. A member of the Hyderabad nobility he was also the personal secretary to the eldest son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad (Prince Azam Jah).He was proficient in English, French,German, Russian,Spanish, Italian,Arabic and Persian apart from Urdu which was his mother tongue. In fact, he got a doctorate in Philology. Any body who studied any of these languages in the sixties and seventies should have come into contact with this polyglotte. He was a connaisseur of ghazals and would regularly attend the mushairas conducted in the old city of Hyderabad.

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Name Khan, Mir Taher Ali
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Date of birth 1904
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Date of death 1981
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