Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari KCIE, CSI (12 October 1894 – 28 December 1948) was an Indian civil servant and politician.
He then served as Agent to the Governor-General in Ceylon from October 1927 to June 1929 dealing with welfare and rights of the large Indian labour force in the plantations.
[8] His son, also called Akbar Hydari, was an industrialist and served as the Chairman of Western India Match Company (WIMCO) Ltd. from 1964 till the 1980s,[16] later, as the director of Facit Asia and as the Honorary Swedish Consul in Madras.
[17] Hydari died from a stroke on 28 December 1948 while on a visit to Manipur, in a dak bungalow at a village called Waikhong, 30 miles (48 km) away from Imphal.
[8] His body was carried in procession in a coffin draped in the National and Governor's flag to the cemetery of the Imphal Cantonment in the Kangla Palace.