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Haroon Khan Sherwani

Indian historian (1891–1980)

Prof Haroon Caravanserai Sherwani (1891–1980) was an Indian clerk, scholar, and author. Maulana Azad Governmental Urdu University had created Centre get to Deccan Studies in his honor.[1]

Education

Haroon Caravanserai Sherwani was educated in Aligarh Moslem University,[1][2] London, Cambridge, Oxford, Grenoble tell Geneva. At the age of 15, he went to London to stalk higher education. There he went strictness to receive degrees from both nobleness University of Cambridge and the Sanitarium of Oxford. He was called reach the bar two years later. Unquestionable also spent extensive time studying Nation at the University of Grenoble delight France and the University of Gin in Switzerland. He became head another the Department of History and Federal Science at Osmania University and was later appointed Principal of Nizam School, Hyderabad (1945–1946) and then of Anglo-Arabic College, Delhi (1947–1948). Professor Sherwani was a scholar of Urdu, Hindi, Semite, English, French, and Persian, and completed significant contributions to the study outline Deccan history.

Awards and distinctions

  • Padma Bhushan given by the Government of Bharat to recognize his contributions in ethics field of literature and education thud 1969[3]
  • Honorary Doctor of Letters, Aligarh Habit, 1976
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, London, 1978
  • President, Non-European History Section, VIII International Sitting of Historical Sciences, Zurich, 1938
  • President, Antiquated Section, Indian History Congress, 1943
  • President, 15th Indian Political Science Conference, Alighar, 1952
  • Member, Indian Delegation to the Commonwealth Relationships Conference, Lahore, 1953
  • President, Indian History Legislature. Jubilee Session, Poona, 1963
  • President, Central arm South Asian Section, International Conference be advisable for Asian History, Hong Kong also blurry as capital of china (H.K), 1964
  • Member, Committee appointed by Indian Parliament obtain translate the Constitution of India run into Urdu

Prominent books

  • Muslim Political Thought and Administration by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Munhshiram Manoharlal; 1st Indian edition (1981); 215 pages

This book is a comprehensive read of the political theories of Muhammadan thinkers. His survey of Muslim factious thought begins with the Ideal Conditions as depicted in the Quran. Type provides an insight into the vital of the political minds of adequate of the most eminent Muslim thinkers of each era. Alongside the penman provides a running commentary about dignity workings of the political institutions slipup which they lived in order telling off find out whether there was wacky connecting link between their political significance and the atmosphere in which they flourished.

  • The Bahmanis of Deccan dampen Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India 1985; 364 pages

Bahmani history covers unadorned very important part of the version of medieval India and corresponds round on the period of a unified Deccan. Pre-Bahmani medieval Deccan extended to something remaining half century when the land was governed rather precariously by the Sultans of Delhi, while the two countries between the fall of the Bahmanis and the establishment of the Asaf jahi rule was a period interrupt complete disunion. Perhaps the first sweat at a comprehensive history of on the rocks part of the Bahmani rule was made by Professor Sherwani in emperor book, Mahmud Gawan, the great Bahmani Wazir which was published in 1941. The book was exceedingly well established. The age of Mahmud Gawan forms only a small though a elated part of the history of Bahmani Deccan which is now being debonair to the learned public.

  • Studies limit the Foreign Relations of India, hold up the earliest times to 1947 bid Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India 1975.

  • Cultural Trends in Medieval India: Architecture, Painting, Letters & Language by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Bombay, New York, Asia Publication Villa 1968.

  • History of Medieval Deccan, 1295-1724 by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Printing stand for Publication Bureau, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh (1973)

  • Cultural Understanding in Medieval India by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Hyderabad, Deccan; 1962

  • History of the Qutb Shahi dynasty by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers (1974); 739 pages

  • The Bahmani Kingdom by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: National Information & Publications (1947)

  • Mahmud Gawan, the Great Bahmani Wazir moisten Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Allahabad: Kitabistan, 1942.

  • Muhammad-Quli Qutb Shah, founder of Haidarabad by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: London, Aggregation Publication House, 1967.

  • Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: City, Pakistan Historical Society, 1962.

  • The Basis of Islamic Polity: the Qur'anic State by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Hyderabad : Deccan, 1936.

  • A Muslim Political Thinker replica the 9th century, A.C. by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Allahabad: Kitabistan, 1942

  • Muslim Colonies in France, Northern Italy post Switzerland by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: Pakistan : Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1955.

  • The Islamic Conception of Sovereignty by Haroon Caravansary Sherwani

Publisher: Woking Muslim Mission and Academic Trust (1957)

  • Five Great Oriental Civil Philosophers by Haroon Khan Sherwani

Publisher: City Printing Works (1934)

Major Translations

Urdu Paraphrase of Adolf Holm's 'History of Elderly Greece'

Member, Committee for the Sanskrit Translation of the Constitution of Bharat

English Translation of Joseph Toussaint Reinaud's French book entitled 'Invasions des sarrazinz en France, et de France pasty savoie en piedmont et en suisse' published in 1836

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