Bakar Ali Mirza

He was born to Dr. Safdar Ali Mirza in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on 7 March 1900. He received his education from Nizam College. He obtained B.A from Madras Christian College and B.A. (Hons) from St Catherine's College, Oxford. He later went to Columbia where he obtained M.A degree, and Ph.D when he moved to Frankfurt in 1940.

He initially served as a president of Oxford Majlis and was also a part of various delegations such as the International Students Conference held in Prague in 1962 and Delegate to League against Imperialism held in Brussels in 1927.^[2] He was also an editor of Bharat magazine of Oxford.

He served as an assistant conservator for Forests in government of Hyderabad (now government of Telangana), however he resigned from the post and subsequently joined All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C) at Labour Research Department in 1929. He was later appointed as general secretary of Bengal Jute Workers Union from 1929 to 35, during which he was arrested in 1930.^[2]

He also served as a labour officer of Osmanshahi Mills and Singareni Collieries in 1942, in addition to serving as a member of Osmania University Senate in 1949 and Board of Governors of Hyderabad public School from 1948 to 56.

During his career, he was later elected as a member of Provisional Parliament and was a part of a delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union held at Istanbul in 1950.

The Indian National Congress later appointed him as a general secretary of the party for Hyderabad Pradesh Congress (now Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee) from 1951 to 52.^[2] From 1952 to 58, he was elected as a member of Hyderabad Public Service Commission and Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission from 1952 to 58.

Prior to participating in Lok Sabha elections, he was a literary adviser for press to the government of Afghanistan in 1961.^[5]