Chandu Lal

Chandu Lal
Prime Minister of Hyderabad
In office
1833–1844
MonarchSikandar Jah
Personal details
Died15 April 1845

Chandu Lal Malhotra (1766 – 15 April 1845 ), better known as Maharaja Chandu Lal was the Prime Minister (1833–1844) for the 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad, Sikandar Jah. He was born in Hyderabad Deccan (now Hyderabad, India), and hailed from a Hindu family of the Khatri caste with origins in Lahore. He was also a poet of Urdu, Hyderabadi, Punjabi and Persian.[1][2]

  1. ^ McAuliffe, Robert Paton (1904). The Nizam; the origin and future of the Hyderabad state, being the Le Bas Prize essay in the University of Cambridge, 1904. Robarts - University of Toronto. London C.J. Clay. pp. 39.
  2. ^ Law, John. "Chapter III : The Nizams and their Ministers". Modern Hyderabad (Deccan). p. 30.