Nawab Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salarjang
Birth:1889
Death:1949
Prime Minister of British princely state of Hyderabad.
Nawab Salarjung museum, he being an art collector, had one of the largest individual collections in the world, with 40,000 pieces stacked in 78 rooms. The Museum was nationalised in 1961 by the Indian government and it was moved to a 10-acre plot in Hyderabad in 1968.
Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin