S. M. H. Burney

Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (14 August 1923 – 7 February 2014)^[1] was a civil servant, governor of the states of Tripura, Nagaland, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and a Chairman of the National Minorities Commission.

Burney was an alumnus of the Bareilly College in Uttar Pradesh.^[2] He was an officer of the Indian Administrative Services of the Orissa cadre where he went on to become the Chief Secretary of the state.^[3] Between 1981 and 1984, he served as the Governor of Nagaland, Tripura and Manipur and from 1987 to 1988, as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.^[4][5] He was also a member and later chairman of the Fourth and Fifth Minority Commissions from 1988 to 1992^[6] and was the Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi from 1990 to 1995.^[7]

Burney authored the work Iqbal: Poet – Patriot of India.^[8][9]

References

1. Hindustan Year-book and Who's who. Calcutta: MC Sarkar. 1988. p. 29.
2. "BAREILLY COLLEGE, BAREILLY – Alumni".
3. "CHIEF SECRETARIES OF ODISHA FROM 1936" (PDF).
4. "States after 1947 M-W".
5. Singh, Khushwant. Notes On The Great Indian Circus. New Delhi. p. 186.
6. "National Commission for Minorities".
7. "Jamia Millia Islamia – History".
8. "States after 1947 M-W".
9. Singh, Khushwant. Notes On The Great Indian Circus. New Delhi. p. 186.