Haroon Khan Sherwani

Haroon Khan Sherwani (1891-1980) was educated at Aligarh, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Grenoble and Geneva. He took his honours in History from Oxford in 1911 and was called to the bar two years later. He became head of the department of History and Political Science in Osmania University and was later appointed Principal of Nizam College, Hyderabad, 1945-46, and of Anglo-Arabic College, Delhi. 1947-48, President, Non-European History Section, VIII International Congress of Historical Sciences, Zurich, 1938; Local Secretary, Indian History Congress Hyderabad Session, 1941; President, Medieval Sectioin, Indian History Congress, 1943; President, Fifteenth Indian Political Science Conference, Alighar, 1952; Member, Indian Delegation commonwealth Relations Conference, Lahore, 1953; President, Indian History Congress. JubileeSessiion, Poona, 1963; President, Central and South Asian Sectioin, International Conference of Asian History, Hong Kong, 1964; Editor, Medieval History of Deccan, 1954; awarded Padma Bhushan, 1969; conferred Degree of Doctor of Letters (honor is causa) be Aligarh Muslim University, 1976. Elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society London, 1978.