My grandfather Ziauddin Shakeb, who has died aged 87 of pulmonary oedema, was a historian of Indo-Persian relations and a world-renowned expert on Persian and Arabic manuscripts, working as a consultant at Christie’s auction house in London for 30 years. He was born in India and moved to the UK in 1980 to take up a post at Soas University of London.
He helped to lay the foundations of Deccan studies – the study of the histories, languages, arts and culture of the Deccan, an ancient area that covers much of modern-day south and west India. Living in Hyderabad, he compiled, translated and catalogued thousands of old manuscripts in Persian and Urdu, and created the Mughal record room in the city, now known as the Telangana state archives.
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