S. M. H. Burney

Indian civil servant

Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (14 August 1924 – 7 February 2014)[1] was a civil servant, governor of the states of Tripura, Nagaland, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and a chairman of the National Minorities Commission.

Burney was an alumnus of the Bareilly College in Uttar Pradesh.[2] He was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service of the Orissa cadre where he went on to become the chief secretary of the state.[3] 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 Nagaland, Tripura and Manipur and from 1987 to 1988, as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.[4][5] He was also a member and later chairman of the Fourth and Fifth Minority Commissions from 1988 to 1992[6] and was the chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi from 1990 to 1995.[7]

Burney authored the work Iqbal: Poet – Patriot of India.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ Hindustan Year-book and Who's who. Calcutta: MC Sarkar. 1988. p. 29.
  2. ^ "BAREILLY COLLEGE, BAREILLY – Alumni". Archived from the original on 19 February 2012.
  3. ^ "CHIEF SECRETARIES OF ODISHA FROM 1936" (PDF).
  4. ^ "States after 1947 M-W".
  5. ^ Singh, Khushwant (2001). Notes On The Great Indian Circus. New Delhi. p. 186. ISBN 9780141005768.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ "National Commission for Minorities".
  7. ^ "Jamia Millia Islamia – History".
  8. ^ "States after 1947 M-W".
  9. ^ Singh, Khushwant (2001). Notes On The Great Indian Circus. New Delhi. p. 186. ISBN 9780141005768.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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