Haroon Khan Sherwani

Who was Haroon Khan Sherwani?

Haroon Khan Sherwani was a renowned Indian historian, scholar, and author.

He was educated in Aligarh, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Grenoble and Geneva. At the age of 15, he went to London to pursue higher education. There he went on to receive degrees from both the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He was called to the bar two years later. He also spent extensive time studying French at the University of Grenoble in France and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He became head of the department of History and Political Science in Osmania University and was later appointed Principal of Nizam College, Hyderabad, 1945–46, and then of Anglo-Arabic College, Delhi, 1947-48. Professor Sherwani was a scholar of Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, English, French & Persian. His contributions to the study of Deccan history are perhaps rivaled by none other.