Nawab Ali Yavar Jung was an eminent India

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n diplomat

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. He was governor of the Indian state

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 of Maharashtra

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 from 1971 to 1976.

He was born in Hyderabad to a distinguished Hyderabadi

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 family of scholars, administrators and educators, and studied at Queen's College, Oxford, earning a degree in History

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Nawab Ali Yavar Jung served as the Vice-chancellor

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 of Osmania University

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 from 1945 to 1946 and from 1948 to 1952..In year 1965 to 1968 he was Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University

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. In 1946-47 he was Minister Constitutional Affairs, Home and Educational, Public Health and Local Government in the Nizam's Governor. He resigned from that post in 1947.He was India's ambassador

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 to Argentina

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 (1952–54), Egypt

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 (1954–58), Yugoslavia

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 and Greece

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 (1958–61), France (1961–65), and the United States (1968–70). His personal rapport with Juan Perón

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, Gamal Abdel Nasser

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, Josip Broz Tito

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, Charles de Gaulle

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, and Lyndon B. Johnson

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 substantially contributed to their understanding and appreciation of India's independent foreign policy.

He was appointed as governor

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 of Maharashtra in 1971, and died during his term as governor at Mumbai

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's Raj Bhavan

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 in December 1976.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan

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 and the Padma Vibhushan

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, India's highest civilian honors, in 1959 and 1977, respectively. The stretch of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway (NH 8, commonly called "Western Express Highway") in the suburb of Bandra in Mumbai and The National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped located there are named after him.