Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III

Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Nawab Salar Jung III. Bahadur ( born June 13, 1889 in Poona; † 2 March 1949 in his palace Dewan Devdi in Hyderabad ) was from 1912 Diwan of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad ( Hyderabad = ). His father and grandfather had held this office had. The rest of his life he collected art.

Origin

Yusuf Ali Khan, was the son of Salar Jung II, whose family has its origin attributed to the Sheikh Ovais Karani, a contemporary of Muhammad from Medina. His mother was Zainab Begum, daughter of Nawab Syed Abul Hassan. He received his education at the Nizam 's College. He remained a bachelor all his life, the family died with him.

Journey

His appeal to the sofa was initially, because of his youth, for a period of three years on probation as an adviser Husain Sayyed Ali Bilgrami ( Imud ul- Mulk ) and Faridoon -ul- Mulk were placed at his side. During his tenure, the principle of accountability was introduced by division. After quarrels with your, any democratic form of government refusal, Nizam Asaf Jah VII was laid after two and a half years of his office, which took over the ruler himself. From the large estates of the family, he moved in 1940 from 203,000 subjects an income of over 150,000 HR.

After his resignation, he traveled the world and devoted himself to collecting antique art objects. He bought without too much expertise. The approximately 40,000 items that were found at his death in the 78 rooms of his city palace Deva Devdi, form the basis of the Salar Jung Museum. This museum, its holdings, including many valuable manuscripts were cataloged in two years of work by G. Venkatchalam, 1951 established initially in 30 rooms of the palace. It was nationalized in 1961 and seven years later moved south to a new building of Musi. Among the most important exhibits include a Koran from the 12th century, the Dagger of Jahangir and the fruit diameter of Nurejan.