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Indian historian (1891–1980)

Prof Haroon Khan Sherwani (1891–1980) was an Indian historian, scholar, and author. Maulana Azad National Urdu University had created Centre for Deccan Studies in his honor.^[1]

Education

Haroon Khan Sherwani was educated in Aligarh Muslim University,^[1][2] London, Cambridge, Oxford, Grenoble and Geneva.

At the age of 15, he went to London to pursue higher education.

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There he went on to receive degrees from both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He was called to the bar two years later. He also spent extensive time studying French at the University of Grenoble in France and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

He became head of the Department of History and Political Science at Osmania University and was later appointed Principal of Nizam College, Hyderabad (1945–1946) and then of Anglo-Arabic College, Delhi (1947–1948). Professor Sherwani was a scholar of Urdu, Hindi