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Indian architect (1889–1961)

Born

Syed Zainuddin Hussain Khan

1889

Died1961

OccupationArchitect

Nawab Zain Yar Jung
Born	Syed Zainuddin Hussain Khan 1889
Died	1961
Occupation	Architect
Children	Sadath Ali Khan
Awards	Padma Bhushan (1956)

Buildings	Jubilee Hall Aza Khane Zehra Raj Bhavan

Zain Yar Jung (1889–1961) was an architect.^[1]^[2] He served as the Chief Architect of Hyderabad State.^[3]

Zain Yar Jung was associated with the construction of Osman Sagar, The Badshahi Mosque, and Himayat Sagar.

The Nizam sent two eminent architects, Nawab Zain Yar Jung and Syed Ali Raza, on a study tour of beautiful buildings around the world. They met noted Belgian architect, Ernest Jasper, in Egypt and enlisted his services for designing a university at Hyderabad.^[4] He worked on the Osmania University under Jasper.^[5]

Political career

He was later sent as an emissary of the Nizam to negotiate terms of the merger of Hyderabad State with India.

He was granted the title of Nawab by the Nizam of Hyderabad. He received Padma Bhushan in 1956.^[5]

References

↑ Akbar, Syed (23 April 2017). "OU architect was Nizam's emissary before merger". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
↑ "Arts College: a historic masterpiece". The Hindu. 8 October 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
↑ Lang, Jon T. (2002). A Concise History of Modern Architecture in India. Orient Blackswan. p. 26. ISBN 9788178240176.
↑ "On the heritage trail". The New Indian Express. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
1 2 Nanisetti, Serish (8 April 2017). "Arts College building, a hand-me-down architectural gem". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

v t e Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)
1954	Homi J. Bhabha Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati Jnan Chandra Ghosh Maithilisharan Gupt Amarnath Jha Ajudhiya Nath Khosla Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Hussain Ahmed Madani Josh Malihabadi Vaikunthbhai Mehta Vallathol Narayana Menon A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Palden Thondup Namgyal V. Narahari Rao Jamini Roy Sukumar Sen M. S. Subbulakshmi Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
1955	Fateh Chand Badhwar Lalit Mohan Banerjee Suniti Kumar Chatterji Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay V. R. Khanolkar Sunder Das Khungar Rameshwari Nehru Prana Krushna Parija Madapati Hanumantha Rao Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker
1956	Rukmini Devi Arundale Rajshekhar Basu Dhyan Chand Zain Yar Jung C. K. Nayudu Muthulakshmi Reddi Kanwar Sen Vir Singh K. Srinivasan Mahadevi Varma
1957	Bhikhan Lal Atreya Balasaraswati Alagappa Chettiar Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Abid Hussain Mushtaq Hussain Khan Lakshmi N. Menon Radha Kumud Mukherjee Andal Venkatasubba Rao Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar Shyam Nandan Sahay Govind Sakharam Sardesai K. A. Nilakanta Sastri Basiswar Sen Siddheshwar Varma
1958	Salim Ali Vijaya Anand D. P. Roy Choudhury Jeahangir Ghandy N. S. Hardikar Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar Allauddin Khan K. P. S. Menon A. C. N. Nambiar Kuvempu Poola Tirupati Raju Kamalendumati Shah Rao Raja Hanut Singh Rustom Jal Vakil Surya Narayan Vyas Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
1959	Sisir Bhaduri Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Ali Yavar Jung Hansa Jivraj Mehta Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi Tenzing Norgay Bhaurao Patil Dhanvanthi Rama Rau Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta Mysore Vasudevachar Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar Ghulam Yazdani
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029

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