Amina Hydari (1878–1939) was an Indian social worker. In 1908, she received the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal, the first woman recipient, for her work during the Great Musi Flood of 1908. The wife of former Prime Minister of Kingdom of Hyderabad Akbar Hydari, she founded the Lady Hydari Club in 1929 and Mahboobia Girls School, the first girls' school in the State. Her uncle was the lawyer and congressman Badruddin Tyabji.

Social life

She founded the Lady Hydari Club in 1929 exclusively for women.

Amina Hydari

See also

Akbar Hydari

Aditi Rao Hydari

References

1878 births

1939 deaths

Indian social workers

Indian Ismailis

Sulaymani Bohras

Women from Hyderabad State

People from Hyderabad State

19th-century Indian educators

20th-century Indian educators

Women educators from Andhra Pradesh

Educators from Andhra Pradesh

19th-century women educators

20th-century Indian women educators

Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

Tyabji family

Social workers from British India

Amina Hydari