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For the Bengali politician, see <a href="/wiki/Golam_Yazdani" title="Golam Yazdani">Golam Yazdani</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Ghulam Yazdani</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1885-03-22</span>)</span>22 March 1885<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">13 November 1962<span style="display:none">(1962-11-13)</span> (aged 77)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Delhi, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Epigraphist" class="mw-redirect" title="Epigraphist">epigraphist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archaeologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeologist">archaeologist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7, including <a href="/wiki/Zubaida_Yazdani" title="Zubaida Yazdani">Zubaida Yazdani</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Muhammadan_Anglo-Oriental_College" title="Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College">Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_College_University_(Lahore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Government College University (Lahore)">Government College, Lahore</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rajshahi_College" title="Rajshahi College">Rajshahi College</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_College,_Delhi" title="St. Stephen's College, Delhi">St. Stephen's College, Delhi</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ghulam Yazdani</b>, <small><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></small> (22 March 1885 – 13 November 1962) was an Indian archaeologist who was one of the founders of the Archaeological Department during the colonial era reign of Nizam of <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_State" title="Hyderabad State">Hyderabad</a>. He also edited the Arabic and Persian Supplement of <i><a href="/wiki/Epigraphia_Indica" title="Epigraphia Indica">Epigraphia Indica</a></i> from 1913 to 1940. He was instrumental in surveying and documenting Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain sites in the Hyderabad state, including major mosques in the region, the caves at <a href="/wiki/Ajanta_Caves" title="Ajanta Caves">Ajanta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ellora_caves" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellora caves">Ellora caves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alampur,_Jogulamba_Gadwal_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Alampur, Jogulamba Gadwal district">Alampur</a> group of temples, <a href="/wiki/Ramappa_Temple" title="Ramappa Temple">Ramappa Temple</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bidar_fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Bidar fort">Bidar fort</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Daulatabad,_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Daulatabad, Maharashtra">Daulatabad Fort</a>, among many others. </p><p>Yazdani led archaeological surveys were periodically published as <i>Annual Reports of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Dominions</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghulam_Yazdani&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yazdani was born on 22 March 1885 in <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bidarhistorica_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bidarhistorica-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated under <a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Day" title="Godfrey Day">Rev. J. Godfrey F. Day</a> and <a href="/wiki/C.F._Andrews" class="mw-redirect" title="C.F. Andrews">C.F. Andrews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The young Yazdani was also trained under Maulavi Mohammad Ishaq and <a href="/wiki/Nazir_Ahmad_Dehlvi" title="Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi">Shamsul Ulama Maulavi Nazeer Ahmad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1903, he stood first in <a href="/wiki/Aligarh_Muslim_University" title="Aligarh Muslim University">Aligarh Muslim University</a> in his intermediate exams, and in 1905, he stood first in Arabic, Oriental Classics, and English in the B.A. exam, winning three gold medals: the Macleod medal, the Aitchison medal, and the F.S. Jamaluddin medal.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He succeeded <a href="/wiki/Josef_Horovitz" title="Josef Horovitz">Josef Horovitz</a> as the Epigraphist to the Government of India for Persian and Arabic inscriptions in 1915, and held that office till 1941. In 1907, he was appointed the Professor of Persian at <a href="/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_College,_Delhi" title="St. Stephen's College, Delhi">St. Stephen's College</a> in Delhi, and in 1909, H. Sharp (later Sir Henry Sharp)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> appointed him as the Professor of Arabic in the <a href="/wiki/Rajshahi_College" title="Rajshahi College">Government College</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rajshahi" title="Rajshahi">Rajshahi</a> in Bengal.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1913, the Government of Punjab appointed him as the Professor of Arabic at the <a href="/wiki/Government_College_University_(Lahore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Government College University (Lahore)">Government College</a> in Lahore. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Director_of_the_Archaeological_Department_of_H.E.H._The_Nizam's_Dominions"><span id="Director_of_the_Archaeological_Department_of_H.E.H._The_Nizam.27s_Dominions"></span>Director of the Archaeological Department of H.E.H. The Nizam's Dominions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghulam_Yazdani&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Director of the Archaeological Department of H.E.H. The Nizam's Dominions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon the recommendation of <a href="/wiki/John_Marshall_(archaeologist)" title="John Marshall (archaeologist)">John Marshall</a>, he was deputed to <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad" title="Hyderabad">Hyderabad</a> to organize the Archaeological Department of H.E.H the Nizam's Dominions (Hyderabad state) in 1914. He became the first Director of the department and served for 30 years till his retirement in 1943. In this capacity, he also edited the <i>Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness The Nizam's Dominions</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dr. Yazdani visited Bidar for the first time in 1915, drew up a comprehensive program for the thorough repair and conservation of the monuments at Bidar, and the work was carried out by the Government of <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_State" title="Hyderabad State">Hyderabad State</a> under <a href="/wiki/Mir_Osman_Ali_Khan" title="Mir Osman Ali Khan">Mir Osman Ali Khan</a>, Asaf Jah VII, the <a href="/wiki/Nizam_of_Hyderabad" title="Nizam of Hyderabad">Nizam of Hyderabad</a>. He introduced an illustrated booklet, to serve as a guide-book titled <i>The Antiquities of Bidar</i> in 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, he completed his book <i>Bidar: Its History and Monuments</i> published by the <a href="/wiki/Nizam_of_Hyderabad" title="Nizam of Hyderabad">Nizam</a>’s Government and printed at Oxford University Press in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The work done by him on the preservation of monuments and exploration and excavation of relics of ancient civilization, particularly Ellora, Ajanta and Bidar, was well received not only in India but also in Europe and the United States of America, Dr. Yazdani wrote several books. He wrote about eight volumes on the work of Ajanta and Ellora before and after excavation and preservation.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dr. Yazdani received several honours such as being elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Asiatic_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Asiatic Society">Royal Asiatic Society</a>, a Member of the <a href="/wiki/Bhandarkar_Oriental_Research_Institute" title="Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute">Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute</a>, and an Honorary Fellow of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_Research_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Islamic Research Association (page does not exist)">Islamic Research Association</a>, Bombay. He was involved with <a href="/wiki/Osmania_University" title="Osmania University">Osmania University</a> right since its inception.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1936, he was conferred the title of "Officer of the Distinguished Order of the British Empire" (<a href="/wiki/O.B.E." class="mw-redirect" title="O.B.E.">O.B.E.</a>). He also received several honorary doctorates from several universities. Finally, in recognition of his glorious service to history and archaeology, the Government of India conferred the award of <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dr. Yazdani was also a mentor to the next generation of scholars who worked on the Deccan, such as <a href="/wiki/Haroon_Khan_Sherwani" title="Haroon Khan Sherwani">Haroon Khan Sherwani</a>. Dr. Sherwani is best known for his two volume work co-edited with Purushottam Mahadev Joshi (Director, Bombay Archives) called <i>History of Medieval Deccan</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghulam_Yazdani&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Government of India awarded him the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a>, then the second highest civilian award, in 1959. He died on 13 November 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-The_man_history_forgot_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_man_history_forgot-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghulam_Yazdani&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He married Badr Jahan Begum in 1909. They had two sons and five daughters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghulam_Yazdani&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFYazdaniHussein1900" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam; Hussein, Shaikh Chand (1900). <i>Mulk-i 'anbar : ya'ni saltanat-i nizam shahiyah</i>. Hyderabad: Matbu`ah `Ahad-i Afrin.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mulk-i+%27anbar+%3A+ya%27ni+saltanat-i+nizam+shahiyah&rft.place=Hyderabad&rft.pub=Matbu%60ah+%60Ahad-i+Afrin&rft.date=1900&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rft.au=Hussein%2C+Shaikh+Chand&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1917" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1917). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/antoquitiesofbid00gyaz"><i>The Antiquities of Bidar</i></a>. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788120605015" title="Special:BookSources/9788120605015"><bdi>9788120605015</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Antiquities+of+Bidar&rft.place=Calcutta&rft.pub=Baptist+Mission+Press&rft.date=1917&rft.isbn=9788120605015&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fantoquitiesofbid00gyaz&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1922" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1922). <i>The Temples at Palampet</i>. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Temples+at+Palampet&rft.place=Calcutta&rft.pub=Superintendent+of+Government+Printing&rft.date=1922&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1927" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1927). <i>Guide to Ajanta Frescoes</i>. Hyderabad: Archaeological Department.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Guide+to+Ajanta+Frescoes&rft.place=Hyderabad&rft.pub=Archaeological+Department&rft.date=1927&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1929" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1929). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.46109"><i>Mandu: The City of Joy</i></a>. 1929: Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mandu%3A+The+City+of+Joy&rft.place=1929&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1929&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.gov.ignca.46109&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location" title="Category:CS1 maint: location">link</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1930–1955" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1930–1955). <i>Ajanta: the colour and monochrome reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on photography</i>. London: Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ajanta%3A+the+colour+and+monochrome+reproductions+of+the+Ajanta+Frescoes+based+on+photography&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1930%2F1955&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1936" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam, ed. (1936). <i>The story of the Archaeological Department, 1914-1936: a souvenir of the Silver Jubilee of His Exalted Highness the Nizam</i>. Hyderabad: Archaeological Department of H.E.H. The Nizam's Dominions.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+story+of+the+Archaeological+Department%2C+1914-1936%3A+a+souvenir+of+the+Silver+Jubilee+of+His+Exalted+Highness+the+Nizam&rft.place=Hyderabad&rft.pub=Archaeological+Department+of+H.E.H.+The+Nizam%27s+Dominions&rft.date=1936&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1947" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1947). <i>Bidar: Its History and Monuments</i>. London: Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bidar%3A+Its+History+and+Monuments&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1947&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1952" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1952). <i>History of the Deccan (in three volumes)</i>. London, Bombay: Published under the authority of the government of Hyderabad by Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+the+Deccan+%28in+three+volumes%29&rft.place=London%2C+Bombay&rft.pub=Published+under+the+authority+of+the+government+of+Hyderabad+by+Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1952&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1960" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1960). <i>The Early History of the Deccan (in two volumes)</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Early+History+of+the+Deccan+%28in+two+volumes%29&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1960&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>COMMEMORATION VOLUME: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSherwani1966" class="citation book cs1">Sherwani, H.K., ed. (1966). <i>Dr. Ghulam Yazdani commemoration volume</i>. 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Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788120605015" title="Special:BookSources/9788120605015"><bdi>9788120605015</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Antiquities+of+Bidar&rft.place=Calcutta&rft.pub=Baptist+Mission+Press&rft.date=1917&rft.isbn=9788120605015&rft.aulast=Yazdani&rft.aufirst=Ghulam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fantoquitiesofbid00gyaz&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhulam+Yazdani" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYazdani1947" class="citation book cs1">Yazdani, Ghulam (1947). <i>Bidar: Its History and Monuments</i>. 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Bhabha">Homi J. Bhabha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanti_Swaroop_Bhatnagar" class="mw-redirect" title="Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar">Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahadeva_Iyer_Ganapati" title="Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati">Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jnan_Chandra_Ghosh" title="Jnan Chandra Ghosh">Jnan Chandra Ghosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maithili_Sharan_Gupt" title="Maithili Sharan Gupt">Maithili Sharan Gupt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amarnath_Jha" title="Amarnath Jha">Amarnath Jha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajudhiya_Nath_Khosla" title="Ajudhiya Nath Khosla">Ajudhiya Nath Khosla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kariamanickam_Srinivasa_Krishnan" class="mw-redirect" title="Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan">Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hussain_Ahmed_Madani" title="Hussain Ahmed Madani">Hussain Ahmed Madani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Malihabadi" title="Josh Malihabadi">Josh Malihabadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaikunthbhai_Mehta" title="Vaikunthbhai Mehta">Vaikunthbhai Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vallathol_Narayana_Menon" title="Vallathol Narayana Menon">Vallathol Narayana Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Lakshmanaswami_Mudaliar" title="A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar">A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palden_Thondup_Namgyal" title="Palden Thondup Namgyal">Palden Thondup Namgyal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Narahari_Rao" title="V. Narahari Rao">V. Narahari Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamini_Roy" title="Jamini Roy">Jamini Roy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukumar_Sen_(civil_servant)" title="Sukumar Sen (civil servant)">Sukumar Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Subbulakshmi" title="M. S. Subbulakshmi">M. S. Subbulakshmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodandera_Subayya_Thimayya" title="Kodandera Subayya Thimayya">Kodandera Subayya Thimayya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1955</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fateh_Chand_Badhwar" title="Fateh Chand Badhwar">Fateh Chand Badhwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalit_Mohan_Banerjee" title="Lalit Mohan Banerjee">Lalit Mohan Banerjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suniti_Kumar_Chatterji" title="Suniti Kumar Chatterji">Suniti Kumar Chatterji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamaladevi_Chattopadhyay" title="Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay">Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._R._Khanolkar" title="V. R. Khanolkar">V. R. Khanolkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunder_Das_Khungar" title="Sunder Das Khungar">Sunder Das Khungar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rameshwari_Nehru" title="Rameshwari Nehru">Rameshwari Nehru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prana_Krushna_Parija" title="Prana Krushna Parija">Prana Krushna Parija</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madapati_Hanumantha_Rao" title="Madapati Hanumantha Rao">Madapati Hanumantha Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maneklal_Sankalchand_Thacker" title="Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker">Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1956</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rukmini_Devi_Arundale" title="Rukmini Devi Arundale">Rukmini Devi Arundale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajshekhar_Basu" title="Rajshekhar Basu">Rajshekhar Basu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhyan_Chand" title="Dhyan Chand">Dhyan Chand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zain_Yar_Jung" title="Zain Yar Jung">Zain Yar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._K._Nayudu" title="C. K. Nayudu">C. K. Nayudu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthulakshmi_Reddi" class="mw-redirect" title="Muthulakshmi Reddi">Muthulakshmi Reddi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanwar_Sen" title="Kanwar Sen">Kanwar Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vir_Singh_(writer)" title="Vir Singh (writer)">Vir Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Srinivasan" class="mw-redirect" title="K. Srinivasan">K. Srinivasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahadevi_Varma" title="Mahadevi Varma">Mahadevi Varma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1957</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhikhan_Lal_Atreya" title="Bhikhan Lal Atreya">Bhikhan Lal Atreya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balasaraswati" title="Balasaraswati">Balasaraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alagappa_Chettiar" title="Alagappa Chettiar">Alagappa Chettiar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazari_Prasad_Dwivedi" title="Hazari Prasad Dwivedi">Hazari Prasad Dwivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abid_Hussain" title="Abid Hussain">Abid Hussain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mushtaq_Hussain_Khan" title="Mushtaq Hussain Khan">Mushtaq Hussain Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_N._Menon" title="Lakshmi N. Menon">Lakshmi N. Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radha_Kumud_Mukherjee" title="Radha Kumud Mukherjee">Radha Kumud Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andal_Venkatasubba_Rao" title="Andal Venkatasubba Rao">Andal Venkatasubba Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrikrishna_Narayan_Ratanjankar" title="Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar">Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_Nandan_Sahay" title="Shyam Nandan Sahay">Shyam Nandan Sahay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Sakharam_Sardesai" title="Govind Sakharam Sardesai">Govind Sakharam Sardesai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._A._Nilakanta_Sastri" title="K. A. Nilakanta Sastri">K. A. Nilakanta Sastri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basiswar_Sen" title="Basiswar Sen">Basiswar Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddheshwar_Varma" title="Siddheshwar Varma">Siddheshwar Varma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1958</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Salim_Ali" title="Salim Ali">Salim Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharajkumar_of_Vizianagram" title="Maharajkumar of Vizianagram">Vijaya Anand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Roy_Choudhury" title="D. P. Roy Choudhury">D. P. Roy Choudhury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeahangir_Ghandy" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeahangir Ghandy">Jeahangir Ghandy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Hardikar" title="N. S. Hardikar">N. S. Hardikar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariyakudi_Ramanuja_Iyengar" title="Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar">Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allauddin_Khan" title="Allauddin Khan">Allauddin Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._P._S._Menon_(senior)" class="mw-redirect" title="K. P. S. Menon (senior)">K. P. S. Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._C._N._Nambiar" title="A. C. N. Nambiar">A. C. N. Nambiar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuvempu" title="Kuvempu">Kuvempu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poola_Tirupati_Raju" title="Poola Tirupati Raju">Poola Tirupati Raju</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamalendumati_Shah" title="Kamalendumati Shah">Kamalendumati Shah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanut_Singh" title="Hanut Singh">Rao Raja Hanut Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rustom_Jal_Vakil" title="Rustom Jal Vakil">Rustom Jal Vakil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surya_Narayan_Vyas" title="Surya Narayan Vyas">Surya Narayan Vyas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darashaw_Nosherwan_Wadia" title="Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia">Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1959</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sisir_Bhaduri" title="Sisir Bhaduri">Sisir Bhaduri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramdhari_Singh_Dinkar" title="Ramdhari Singh Dinkar">Ramdhari Singh Dinkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Yavar_Jung" title="Ali Yavar Jung">Ali Yavar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hansa_Jivraj_Mehta" title="Hansa Jivraj Mehta">Hansa Jivraj Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pammal_Sambandha_Mudaliar" title="Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar">Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiruppattur_R._Venkatachala_Murthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi">Tiruppattur R. Venkatachala Murthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay" title="Tenzing Norgay">Tenzing Norgay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhaurao_Patil" title="Bhaurao Patil">Bhaurao Patil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanvanthi_Rama_Rau" title="Dhanvanthi Rama Rau">Dhanvanthi Rama Rau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirmal_Kumar_Sidhanta" title="Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta">Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysore_Vasudevachar" title="Mysore Vasudevachar">Mysore Vasudevachar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhargavaram_Viththal_Varerkar" title="Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar">Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ghulam Yazdani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div># Posthumous conferral <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1954%E2%80%931959)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)">1954–1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1960%E2%80%931969)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–1969)">1960–1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1970%E2%80%931979)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)">1970–1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1980%E2%80%931989)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989)">1980–1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1990%E2%80%931999)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–1999)">1990–1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2000%E2%80%932009)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)">2000–2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010%E2%80%932019)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)">2010–2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2020%E2%80%932029)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)">2020–2029</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" aria-labelledby="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12424072#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div 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