- Mir Taher Ali Khan
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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.
Categories:- Telugu people
- 1904 births
- 1981 deaths
- Indian royalty stubs
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