Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (14 August 1924 ? 7 February 2014) ^[1] was a civil servant , governor of the states of Tripura , Nagaland , Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and a chairman of the National Minorities Commission .

Burney was an alumnus of the Bareilly College in Uttar Pradesh. ^[2] He was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service of the Orissa cadre where he went on to become the chief secretary of the state. ^[3] He served as Home Secretary to the Government of India from February 1980 to August 1981. Between 1981 and 1984, he served as the governor of Nagaland , Tripura and Manipur and from 1987 to 1988, as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. ^{[4] [5]} He was also a member and later chairman of the Fourth and Fifth Minority Commissions from 1988 to 1992 ^[6] and was the chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi from 1990 to 1995. ^[7]

Burney authored the work Iqbal: Poet ? Patriot of India . ^{[8] [9]}

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