30 Facts About Zubaida Yazdani

Zubaida Yazdani was an Indian historian specialized in the history of the Deccan Plateau and the Nizam State of Hyderabad, in India.

Zubaida Yazdani was born in Hyderabad, India on 27 April 1916.

Zubaida Yazdani authored two books and numerous scholarly articles about the history of India.

Zubaida Yazdani's scholarship explores the topics based on the painstaking use of original records, documents that had been overlooked by previous investigators.

Zubaida Yazdani supervised the translation of Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi's novel Taubat-Al-Nusuh from Urdu into English: A literary work of the late 19th century on the life of Muslims in India.

Zubaida Yazdani taught for more than three decades in college in Hyderabad, India, where she was one of the main founders of a college for women.

Zubaida Yazdani started the Hyderabad School for Languages and Science in London, teaching primary, junior and secondary pupils in Urdu as well as the curriculum subjects of English, mathematics, computer studies, French, and Arabic to students from primary to O and A Levels.

Zubaida Yazdani's father was the director of archaeology in the Nizam's government in Hyderabad and was instrumental in the preservation of the caves at Ajanta and Ellora, which are cultural assets of Buddhist and Hindu religious art.

Zubaida Yazdani was awarded an OBE by the British government and a Padma Bhushan by the Indian government.

Zubaida Yazdani was married to Mir Yaseen Ali Khan, who was an Urdu poet, which published in literary magazines in India.

Zubaida Yazdani was one of the first Asian women to enter Oxford University.

Zubaida Yazdani got her degree at Oxford in June 1940.

Zubaida Yazdani taught there for many years and conducted and published research while teaching there.

Zubaida Yazdani left again for Britain in March 1963 and started attending postgraduate classes at London university School of Oriental and African Studies.

Zubaida Yazdani then wrote her second book, The Seventh Nizam: The Fallen Empire.

Zubaida Yazdani was the first to make a detailed study of these voluminous papers.

Zubaida Yazdani published her second book titled "The Seventh Nizam: The Fallen Empire" in 1985.

Zubaida Yazdani supervised the translation from Urdu into English, of a novel titled Taubat al Nusuh written by Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi who was the first Urdu novelist.

Zubaida Yazdani wrote numerous papers and articles which were presented at scholarly conferences.

Zubaida Yazdani presented her proposal for the establishment of a new women's college to the Association and the proposal was accepted by Sri Devi the principal of the Women's College.

Zubaida Yazdani faced this crisis in her usual determined way.

Zubaida Yazdani told the students to go home and that it was a college holiday for them and to come back to the same place the next day and they would be informed of the college's new location.

Zubaida Yazdani told the teachers to come back the next day at their usual time and they would then go to the new premises.

Zubaida Yazdani then went home and took her teenaged son with her and took him with her and went to meet the President and Secretary of the Sir Nizamat Jung Trust library.

Zubaida Yazdani requested that the halls and rooms of the library be rented out to the college.

Zubaida Yazdani told them that by the time the committee is formed the college will be finished.

The next day when the students and teachers came back to the college, they were met by a smiling Zubaida Yazdani who gave them directions to the new college building.

Zubaida Yazdani wanted that the college should be affiliated with Osmania university.

Zubaida Yazdani established the Hyderabad School for Languages and Sciences in Hackney in London.

Zubaida Yazdani was an office bearer in various Urdu and History associations and published research in academic journals.