Salim Ali - Wikipedia Salim Ali For the South Yemen head of stational, see Salim Rubai Ali. For other people named Saleem Ali, see Saleem Ali ( disambiguation ). Salim Ali ( 1896 - 11 - 12 ) 12 November 1896 Bombay, India 20 June 1987 ( 1987 - 06 - 20 ) ( aged 90 ) Bombay, India Nationality Indian Spouse ( s ) Tehmina Ali Awards Padma Bhushan ( 1958 ), Padma Vibhushan ( 1976 ) Scientific career Fields Ornithology Natural history Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali ( 12 November 1896 -- 20 June 1987 ) was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the `` birdman of India '', Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and several bird books that he wrote helped popularise ornithology in India. He became the key figure behind the Bombay Natural History Society after 1947 and used his personal influence to garner government support for the organisation, create the Bharatpur bird sanctuary ( Keoladeo National Park ) and prevent the destruction of what is now the Silent Valley National Park. Along with Sidney Dillon Ripley he wrote the ten volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, a second edition of which was completed after his death. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1958 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1976, India 's third and second highest civilian honours respectively. Several species of birds and a couple of bird sanctuaries and institutions have been named after him. Contents 1 Early life 2 Burma and Germany 3 Ornithology 4 Other contributions 5 Personal views 6 Honours and memorials 7 Writings 8 References 9 External links Early life Salim Ali was born into a Sulaimani Bohra Muslim family of Bombay, the ninth and youngest child. His father Moizuddin died when he was one year old and his mother Zeenat - un-nissa died when he was three. The children were brought up by his maternal uncle, Amiruddin Tyabji, and childless aunt, Hamida Begum, in a middle - class household in Khetwadi, Mumbai. Another uncle was Abbas Tyabji, well known Indian freedom fighter. Salim was introduced to the serious study of birds by W.S. Millard, secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society ( BNHS ), who identified an unusually coloured sparrow that young Salim had shot for sport with his toy air gun. Millard identified it as a yellow - throated sparrow, and showed Salim around the Society 's collection of stuffed birds. Millard lent Salim a few books including Eha 's Common birds of Bombay, encouraged Salim to make a collection of birds and offered to train him in skinning and preservation. Millard also introduced young Salim to ( later Sir ) Norman Boyd Kinnear, the first paid curator at the BNHS, who later provided help from the British Museum. In his autobiography, The Fall of a Sparrow, Ali notes the yellow - throated sparrow event as the turning point of his life that led him into ornithology, an unusual career choice, especially for an Indian in those days. Even at around 10 years of age, he maintained a diary and among his earliest bird notes included observations on the replacement of the males in paired hen sparrows after he shot down the males. He noted that male partner of a female sparrow was replaced soon after he had shot the previous male. His early interest was in books on hunting in India and he became interested in sport - shooting, encouraged by the hunting interests of his foster - father Amiruddin. Shooting contests were often held in the neighbourhood in which he grew and among his playmates was Iskandar Mirza, a distant cousin who was a particularly good marksman and who went on in later life to become the first President of Pakistan. Salim went to primary school at Zenana Bible and Medical Mission Girls High School at Girgaum along with two of his sisters and later to St. Xavier 's College, Bombay. Around the age of 13 he suffered from chronic headaches, making him drop out of class frequently. He was sent to Sind to stay with an uncle who had suggested that the dry air might help and on returning after such breaks in studies, he barely managed to pass the matriculation exam of the Bombay University in 1913. Burma and Germany Yellow - throated sparrow Salim Ali 's early education was at St. Xavier 's College, Mumbai. Following a difficult first year in college, he dropped out and went to Tavoy, Burma ( Tenasserim ) to look after the family 's wolfram ( tungsten ) mining ( tungsten was used in armour plating and was valuable during the war ) and timber interests there. The forests surrounding this area provided an opportunity for Ali to hone his naturalist ( and hunting ) skills. He also made acquaintance with JC Hopwood and Berthold Ribbentrop who were with the Forest Service in Burma. On his return to India in 1917 after seven years, he decided to continue formal studies. He was to study commercial law and accountancy at Davar 's College of Commerce. His true interest was however noticed by Father Ethelbert Blatter at St. Xavier 's College who persuaded Ali to study zoology. After attending morning classes at Davar 's College, he then began to attend zoology classes at St. Xavier 's College and was able to complete the course in zoology. Around the same time, he married Tehmina, a distant relative, in December 1918. Ali was fascinated by motorcycles from an early age and starting with a 3.5 HP NSU in Tavoy, he owned a Sunbeam, Harley - Davidsons ( three models ), a Douglas, a Scott, a New Hudson and a Zenith among others at various times. On invitation to the 1950 International Ornithological Congress at Uppsala in Sweden he shipped his Sunbeam aboard the SS Stratheden from Bombay and biked around Europe, injuring himself in a minor mishap in France apart from having several falls on cobbled roads in Germany. When he arrived on a fully loaded bike, just in time for the first session at Uppsala, word went around that he had ridden all the way from India ! He regretted not having owned a BMW. Ali ( standing at left ) with students of the Victoria Jubilee School for the Blind at the Prince of Wales Museum in 1927 Ali failed to get an ornithologist 's position which was open at the Zoological Survey of India due to the lack of a formal university degree and the post went instead to M.L. Roonwal. He was hired as guide lecturer in 1926 at the newly opened natural history section in the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai for the salary of Rs 350 a month. He however tired of the job after two years and took a study leave in 1928 to Germany, where he was to work under Professor Erwin Stresemann at the Berlin Zoological Museum. Part of the work involved examining the specimens collected by J.K. Stanford in Burma. Stanford being a BNHS member had communicated with Claud Ticehurst and had suggested that he could work on his own with assistance from the BNHS. Ticehurst did not appreciate the idea of an Indian being involved in the work and resented even more, the involvement of Stresemann, a German. Ticehurst wrote letters to the BNHS suggesting that the idea of collaborating with Stresemann was an insult to Stanford. This was however not heeded by Reginald Spence and Prater who encouraged Ali to conduct the studies at Berlin with the assistance of Stresemann. Ali found Stresemann warm and helpful right from his first letters sent before even meeting him. In his autobiography, Ali calls Stresemann his guru, to whom all his later queries went. In Berlin, Ali made acquaintance with many of the major German ornithologists of the time including Bernhard Rensch, Oskar Heinroth, Rudolf Drost and Ernst Mayr apart from meeting other Indians in Berlin including the revolutionary Chempakaraman Pillai. Ali also gained experience in bird ringing at the Heligoland Bird Observatory. Ornithology With Mary and Dillon Ripley on a collection trip ( 1976 ) On his return to India in 1930, he discovered that the guide lecturer position had been eliminated due to lack of funds. Unable to find a suitable job, Salim Ali and Tehmina moved to Kihim, a coastal village near Mumbai. Here he had the opportunity to study at close hand, the breeding of the baya weaver and discovered their mating system of sequential polygamy. Later commentators have suggested that this study was in the tradition of the Mughal naturalists that Salim Ali admired and wrote about in three part series on the Moghul emperors as naturalists. A few months were then spent in Kotagiri where he had been invited by KM Anantan, a retired army doctor who had served in Mesopotamia during World War I. He also came in contact with Mrs Kinloch, who lived at Longwood Shola, and her son - in - law RC Morris, who lived in the Biligirirangan Hills. He then discovered an opportunity to conduct systematic bird surveys of the princely states that included Hyderabad, Cochin, Travancore, Gwalior, Indore and Bhopal with the sponsorship of the rulers of those states. He was aided and supported in these surveys by Hugh Whistler who had surveyed many parts of India and had kept very careful notes. Interestingly, Whistler had initially been irritated by the unknown Indian. Whistler had in a note on The study of Indian birds mentioned that the long tail feathers of the greater racket - tailed drongo lacked webbing on the inner vane. Salim Ali wrote that such inaccuracies had been carried on from early literature and pointed out that it was incorrect on account of a twist in the rachis. Whistler was initially resentful of an unknown Indian finding fault and wrote `` snooty '' letters to the editors of the journal SH Prater and Sir Reginald Spence. Subsequently, Whistler re-examined his specimens and not only admitted his error but became a close friend. Whistler wrote to Ali on 24 October 1938 : It has been a very great benefit to me that we drifted into collaboration largely in its beginning as an accident - when you pointed out my mistake over the webs of Drong 's tail feather - and the mistake has proved to me well worth while. And here and now I must thank you very warmly for making my collaboration a condition of your undertaking the Mysore and Sunderbans surveys. Whistler also introduced Salim to Richard Meinertzhagen and the two made an expedition into Afghanistan. Although Meinertzhagen had very critical views of him they became good friends. Salim Ali found nothing amiss in Meinertzhagen 's bird works but later studies have shown many of his studies to be fraudulent. Meinertzhagen made his diary entries from their days in the field available and Salim Ali reproduces them in his autobiography : 30.4. 1937 I am disappointed in Salim. He is quite useless at anything but collecting. He can not skin a bird, nor cook, nor do anything connected with camp life, packing up or chopping wood. He writes interminable notes about something - perhaps me... Even collecting he never does on his own initiative... 20.5. 1937 Salim is the personification of the educated Indian and interests me a great deal. He is excellent at his own theoretical subjects, but has no practical ability, and at everyday little problems is hopelessly inefficient... His views are astounding. He is prepared to turn the British out of India tomorrow and govern the country himself. I have repeatedly told him that the British Government have no intention of handing over millions of uneducated Indians to the mercy of such men as Salim :... He was accompanied and supported on his early surveys by his wife, Tehmina, and was shattered when she died in 1939 following a minor surgery. After Tehmina 's death in 1939, Salim Ali stayed with his sister Kamoo and brother - in - law. In the course of his later travels, Ali rediscovered the Kumaon Terai population of the Finn 's baya but was unsuccessful in his expedition to find the mountain quail ( Ophrysia superciliosa ), the status of which continues to remain unknown. Label for a specimen collected by Salim Ali during his Mysore State survey Ali was not very interested in the details of bird systematics and taxonomy and was more interested in studying birds in the field. Ernst Mayr wrote to Ripley complaining that Ali failed to collect sufficient specimens : `` as far as collecting is concerned I do n't think he ever understood the necessity for collecting series. Maybe you can convince him of that. '' Ali himself wrote to Ripley complaining about bird taxonomy : My head reels at all these nomenclatural metaphysics ! I feel strongly like retiring from ornithology, if this is the stuff, and spending the rest of my days in the peace of the wilderness with birds, and away from the dust and frenzy of taxonomical warfare. I somehow feel complete detachment from all this, and am thoroughly unmoved by what name one ornithologist chooses to dub a bird that is familiar to me, and care even less in regard to one that is unfamiliar -- -- - The more I see of these subspecific tangles and inanities, the more I can understand the people who silently raise their eyebrows and put a finger to their temples when they contemplate the modern ornithologist in action. -- Ali to Ripley, 5 January 1956 Ali later wrote that his interest was in the `` living bird in its natural environment. '' Salim Ali 's associations with Sidney Dillon Ripley led to many bureaucratic problems. Ripley 's past as an OSS agent led to allegations that the CIA had a hand in the bird - ringing operations in India. Salim Ali took some interest in bird photography along with his friend Loke Wan Tho. Loke had been introduced to Ali by JTM Gibson, a BNHS member and Lieutenant Commander of the Royal Indian Navy, who had taught English to Loke at a school in Switzerland. A wealthy Singapore businessman with a keen interest in birds, Loke helped Ali and the BNHS with financial support. Ali was also interested in the historical aspects of ornithology in India. In a series of articles, among his first publications, he examined the contributions to natural - history of the Mughal emperors. In the 1971 Sunder Lal Hora memorial lecture and the 1978 Azad Memorial Lecture he spoke of the history and importance of bird study in India. Other contributions Salim Ali was very influential in ensuring the survival of the BNHS and managed to save the then 100 - year - old institution by writing to the then Prime Minister Pandit Nehru for financial help. Salim also influenced other members of his family. A cousin, Humayun Abdulali became an ornithologist while his niece Laeeq took an interest in birds and was married to Zafar Futehally, a distant cousin of Ali, who went on to become the honorary Secretary of the BNHS and played a major role in the development of bird study through the networking of birdwatchers in India. Ali also guided several MSc and PhD students, the first of whom was Vijaykumar Ambedkar, who further studied the breeding and ecology of the baya weaver, producing a thesis that was favourably reviewed by David Lack. Ali was able to provide support for the development of ornithology in India by identifying important areas where funding could be obtained. He helped in the establishment of an economic ornithology unit within the Indian Council for Agricultural Research. He was also able to obtain funding for migration studies through a project to study the Kyasanur forest disease, an arthropod - borne virus that appeared to have similarities to a Siberian tick - borne disease. This project partly funded by the PL 480 grants of the USA however ran into political difficulties with allegations made on CIA involvement. In the late 1980s, he also guided a BNHS project that aimed to reduce bird hits at Indian airfields. He also attempted a citizen science project to study house sparrows in 1963 through Indian birdwatchers who subscribed to the Newsletter for Birdwatchers. Ali had considerable influence in conservation related issues in post-independence India especially through Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Indira Gandhi was herself a keen birdwatcher, influenced by Ali 's bird books ( a copy of the Book of Indian Birds was gifted to her in 1942 by her father Nehru who was in Dehra Dun jail while she herself was imprisoned in Naini Jail ) and by the Gandhian birdwatcher Horace Alexander. Ali influenced the designation of the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, the Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary and in decisions that saved the Silent Valley National Park. One of Ali 's later interventions at Bharatpur involved the exclusion of cattle and graziers from the sanctuary and this was to prove costly and resulted in ecological changes that led to a decline in the numbers of many species of waterbirds. Some historians have noted that the approach to conservation used by Salim Ali and the BNHS followed an undemocratic process. Ali was a frequent visitor to The Doon School where he was an engaging and persuasive advocate of ornithology to successive generations of pupils. As a consequence, he was considered to be part of the Dosco fraternity and became one of the very few people to be made an honorary member of The Doon School Old Boys Society. Personal views Salim Ali held many views that were contrary to the mainstream ideas of his time. A question that he was asked frequently was about the collection of bird specimens particularly in later life when he became known for his conservation related activism. Although once a fan of shikar ( hunting ) literature, Ali held strong views on hunting but upheld the collection of bird specimens for scientific study. He held the view that the practice of wildlife conservation needed to be practical and not grounded in philosophies like ahimsa. Salim Ali suggested that this fundamental religious sentiment had hindered the growth of bird study in India. it is true that I despise purposeless killing, and regard it as an act of vandalism, deserving the severest condemnation. But my love for birds is not of the sentimental variety. It is essentially aesthetic and scientific, and in some cases may even be pragmatic. For a scientific approach to bird study, it is often necessary to sacrifice a few,... ( and ) I have no doubt that but for the methodical collecting of specimens in my earlier years -- several thousands, alas -- it would have been impossible to advance our taxonomical knowledge of Indian birds... nor indeed of their geographic distribution, ecology, and bionomics. -- Ali ( 1985 ) : 195 Brought up in a Muslim household, he had in his younger life been taught to recite the Koran without understanding any Arabic. In his adult life he despised what he saw as the meaningless and hypocritical practices of prayer and was put off by the `` ostentatiously sanctimonious elders ''. In the early 1960s the national bird of India was under consideration and Salim Ali was intent that it should be the endangered Great Indian bustard, however this proposal was over-ruled in favour of the Indian peafowl. Honours and memorials Although recognition came late, he received several honorary doctorates and numerous awards. The earliest was the `` Joy Gobinda Law Gold Medal '' in 1953, awarded by the Asiatic Society of Bengal and was based on an appraisal of his work by Sunder Lal Hora ( and in 1970 received the Sunder Lal Hora memorial Medal of the Indian National Science Academy ). He received honorary doctorates from the Aligarh Muslim University ( 1958 ), Delhi University ( 1973 ) and Andhra University ( 1978 ). In 1967 he became the first non-British citizen to receive the Gold Medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union. In the same year, he received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize consisting of a sum of $100,000, which he used to form the corpus of the Salim Ali Nature Conservation Fund. In 1969 he received the John C. Phillips memorial medal of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences gave him the Pavlovsky Centenary Memorial Medal in 1973 and in the same year he was made Commander of the Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The Indian government decorated him with a Padma Bhushan in 1958 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1976. He was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1985. An interpretation centre at Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary named after Salim Ali Dr. Salim Ali died in Bombay at the age of 90 on 20 June 1987, after a protracted battle with prostate cancer. In 1990, the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History ( SACON ) was established at Coimbatore by the Government of India. Pondicherry University established the Salim Ali School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. The government of Goa set up the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary and the Thattakad bird sanctuary near Vembanad in Kerala also goes by his name. The location of the BNHS in Bombay was renamed to `` Dr Salim Ali Chowk ''. In 1972, Kitti Thonglongya discovered a misidentified specimen in the collection of the BNHS and described a new species that he called Latidens salimalii, considered one of the world 's rarest bats, and the only species in the genus Latidens. The subspecies of the rock bush quail ( Perdicula argoondah salimalii ) and the eastern population of Finn 's weaver ( Ploceus megarhynchus salimalii ) were named after him by Whistler and Abdulali respectively. A subspecies of the black - rumped flameback woodpecker ( Dinopium benghalense tehminae ) was named after his wife, Tehmina, by Whistler and Kinnear. Salim Ali 's swift ( Apus salimalii ) originally described as a population of Apus pacificus was recognised as a full species in 2011 while Zoothera salimalii, an undescribed population within the Zoothera mollissima complex, was named after him in 2016. The International Jury for the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize of the World Wildlife Fund has selected for 1975 Salim A. Ali Creator of an environment for conservation in India, your work over fifty years in acquainting Indians with the natural riches of the subcontinent has been instrumental in the promotion of protection, the setting up of parks and reserves, and indeed the awakening of conscience in all circles from the government to the simplest village Panchayat. Since the writing of your book, the Book of Indian Birds which in its way was the seminal natural history volume for everyone in India, your name has been the single one known throughout the length and breadth of your own country, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as the father of conservation and the fount of knowledge on birds. Your message has gone high and low across the land and we are sure that weaver birds weave your initials in their nests, and swifts perform parabolas in the sky in your honor. For your lifelong dedication to the preservation of bird life in the Indian subcontinent and your identification with the Bombay Natural History Society as a force for education, the World Wildlife Fund takes delight in presenting you with the second J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize. February 19, 1976. Writings Salim Ali wrote numerous journal articles, chiefly in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. He also wrote a number of popular and academic books, many of which remain in print. Ali credited Tehmina, who had studied in England, for helping improve his English prose. Some of his literary pieces were used in a collection of English writing. A popular article that he wrote in 1930 Stopping by the woods on a Sunday morning was reprinted in The Indian Express on his birthday in 1984. His most popular work was The Book of Indian Birds, written in the style of Whistler 's Popular Handbook of Birds, first published in 1941 and subsequently translated into several languages with numerous editions. The first ten editions sold more than forty - six thousand copies. The first edition was reviewed by Ernst Mayr in 1943, who commended it while noting that the illustrations were not to the standard of American bird - books. His magnum opus was however the 10 volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan written with Dillon Ripley and often referred to as `` the handbook ''. This work started in 1964 and ended in 1974 with a second edition completed after his death by others, notably JS Serrao of the BNHS, Bruce Beehler, Michel Desfayes and Pamela Rasmussen. A single volume `` compact edition '' of the `` Handbook '' was also produced and a supplementary illustrative work, A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, by John Henry Dick and Dillon Ripley was published in 1983. The plates from this work were incorporated in the second edition of the `` Handbook ''. He also produced a number of regional field guides, including The Birds of Kerala ' ( the first edition in 1953 was titled ' The Birds of Travancore and Cochin ), The Birds of Sikkim, The Birds of Kutch ( later as The Birds of Gujarat ), Indian Hill Birds and Birds of the Eastern Himalayas. Several low - cost book were produced by the National Book Trust including Common Birds ( 1967 ) written with his niece Laeeq Futehally which was reprinted in several editions with translations into Hindi and other languages. In 1985 he wrote his autobiography, The Fall of a Sparrow. Ali also wrote about his own vision for the Bombay Natural History Society, noting the importance of conservation related activities. In the 1986 issue of the Journal of the BNHS he noted the role that it had played, the changing interests from hunting to conservation captured in 64 volumes that were preserved in microfiche copies, and the zenith that it had reached under the exceptional editorship of SH Prater. A two - volume compilation of his shorter letters and writings was published in 2007, edited by Tara Gandhi, one of his last students. References Jump up ^ Perrins, Christopher ( 1988 ). `` Obituary : Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali ''. 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Jump up ^ Ali ( 1985 ) : 213 -- 214 Jump up ^ Watson GE ( 1971 ). `` Review : Common Indian birds, a picture album by Salim Ali and Laeeq Futehally '' ( PDF ). The Auk. 88 ( 1 ) : 199 -- 200. doi : 10.2307 / 4083999. Jump up ^ Ali, Salim ( 1987 ). `` The Bombay Natural History Society Its Past, Present and Future ''. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 12 ( 3 ) : 206 -- 210. doi : 10.1179 / 030801887789798962. Jump up ^ Ali, S ( 1986 ). `` The journal : Its role in Indian natural history ''. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 83 ( supplement ) : 1 -- 6. Jump up ^ Gandhi, Tara, ed. ( 2007 ). A Bird 's Eye View : The Collected Essays and Shorter Writings of Salim Ali. Permanent Black. ISBN 81 - 7824 - 170 - 6. Autobiography Ali, Salim ( 1985 ) The Fall of a Sparrow. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 - 19 - 562127 - 1 External links Ali, Salim ( 1941 ). Book of Indian Birds. Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 0 - 19 - 563732 - 1. Ali, Salim ; Laeeq Futehally ( 1967 ). Common Birds. New Delhi : National Book Trust. Ali, Salim ( 1945 ). The Birds of Kutch. Oxford University Press for the Kutch Government. Ali, Rauf ( 7 May 2011 ). `` My Grand Uncle Sálim ''. OPEN Magazine. 1974 Indian Government documentary - In the company of birds ( 1974 ) Padma Vibhushan award recipients Arts Ebrahim Alkazi Kishori Amonkar Amitabh Bachchan M. Balamuralikrishna T. Balasaraswati Asha Bhosle Nandalal Bose Hariprasad Chaurasia Girija Devi Kumar Gandharva Adoor Gopalakrishnan Satish Gujral Gangubai Hangal Bhupen Hazarika M.F. Husain Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Bhimsen Joshi Ali Akbar Khan Amjad Ali Khan Allauddin Khan Bismillah Khan Yamini Krishnamurthy Dilip Kumar R.K. Laxman Birju Maharaj Kishan Maharaj Lata Mangeshkar Sonal Mansingh Mallikarjun Mansur Zubin Mehta Mario Miranda Kelucharan Mohapatra Raghunath Mohapatra Jasraj Motiram Benode Behari Mukherjee Hrishikesh Mukherjee Rajinikanth Ram Narayan D.K. Pattammal K. 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Rangarajan Raja Rao Ramoji Rao Hormasji Maneckji Seervai Rajaram Shastri Kalu Lal Shrimali Govindbhai Shroff Khushwant Singh Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Mahadevi Varma Bashir Hussain Zaidi Medicine Jasbir Singh Bajaj B.K. Goyal Purshotam Lal A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar S.I. Padmavati Autar Singh Paintal Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Balu Sankaran V. Shanta Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Prakash Narain Tandon Brihaspati Dev Triguna M.S. Valiathan Other Sunderlal Bahuguna B.K.S. Iyengar Rambhadracharya Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Jaggi Vasudev Public Affairs L.K. Advani Montek Singh Ahluwalia Aruna Asaf Ali Fazal Ali Adarsh Sein Anand Madhav Shrihari Aney Parkash Singh Badal Sikander Bakht Milon K. Banerji Mirza Hameedullah Beg P.N. Bhagwati Raja Chelliah Chandra Kisan Daphtary Niren De C.D. Deshmukh Anthony Lancelot Dias Uma Shankar Dikshit Kazi Lhendup Dorjee P.B. Gajendragadkar Benjamin A. Gilman Zakir Husain V.R. Krishna Iyer Jagmohan Lakshmi Chand Jain Aditya Nath Jha Murli Manohar Joshi Mehdi Nawaz Jung Ali Yavar Jung Vijay Kelkar Hans Raj Khanna V.N. Khare Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Jivraj Narayan Mehta V.K. Krishna Menon Hirendranath Mukherjee Ajoy Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee Padmaja Naidu Gulzarilal Nanda Govind Narain Fali Sam Nariman Hosei Norota Nanabhoy Palkhivala K. Parasaran Hari Vinayak Pataskar Sunder Lal Patwa Sharad Pawar Naryana Raghvan Pillai Sri Prakasa N.G. Ranga Ravi Narayana Reddy Y. Venugopal Reddy Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq Lakshmi Sahgal P.A. Sangma M.C. Setalvad Karan Singh Nagendra Singh Swaran Singh Walter Sisulu Soli Sorabjee Kalyan Sundaram Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Atal Bihari Vajpayee M.N. Venkatachaliah Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Science and Engineering V.K. Aatre Salim Ali Norman Borlaug Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Rajagopala Chidambaram Charles Correa Satish Dhawan Anil Kakodkar A.P.J. 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Narasimham Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Azim Premji Prathap C. Reddy J.R.D. Tata Ratan Tata Portal WikiProject Padma Bhushan award recipients ( 1954 -- 1959 ) 1954 Homi J. Bhabha Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Mahadeva Iyer Ganapati Jnan Chandra Ghosh Maithili Sharan Gupt Amarnath Jha Ajudhiya Nath Khosla Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Husain Ahmad Madani Josh Malihabadi Vaikunthbhai Mehta Vallathol Narayana Menon A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Palden Thondup Namgyal V. Narahari Rao Jamini Roy Sukumar Sen M.S. Subbulakshmi Kodandera Subayya Thimayya 1955 Fateh Chand Badhwar Lalit Mohan Banerjee Suniti Kumar Chatterji Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay V.R. Khanolkar Sunder Das Khungar Rameshwari Nehru Prana Krushna Parija Madapati Hanumantha Rao Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker 1956 Rukmini Devi Arundale Rajshekhar Basu Dhyan Chand Nawab Alam yar jung Bahadur C.K. Nayudu Muthulakshmi Reddi Kanwar Sen Vir Singh K. Srinivasan Mahadevi Varma 1957 Bhikhan Lal Atreya Balasaraswati Alagappa Chettiar Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Abid Hussain Mushtaq Hussain Khan Lakshmi N. Menon Radha Kumud Mukherjee Andal Venkatasubba Rao Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar Shyam Nandan Sahay Govind Sakharam Sardesai K.A. Nilakanta Sastri Basiswar Sen Siddheshwar Varma 1958 Salim Ali Vijaya Anand D.P. Roy Choudhury Jeahangir Ghandy N.S. Hardikar Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar Allauddin Khan K.P.S. Menon A.C.N. Nambiar Kuvempu Poola Tirupati Raju Kamalendumati Shah Rao Raja Hanut Singh Rustom Jal Vakil Surya Narayan Vyas Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia 1959 Sisir Bhaduri Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Ali Yavar Jung Hansa Jivraj Mehta Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar Tiruppattur R. 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Question: who is called the bird man of india
Answer: Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali