Shah Alam Khan

Nawab Shah Alam Khan (1921-2017) was an Indian industrialist, educationist and cultural connoisseur from Hyderabad, India.

At a young age, while he was still a college student, Shah Alam was married to Abida Khatoon, daughter of Mohammad Abdus Sattar, a successful tradesman turned industrialist who had founded the Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory in 1921.

The couple had seven children, all boys, including Mehboob Alam Khan,[2] who runs the Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory and is a food connoisseur.

[3] Not long after their wedding, Shah Alam Khan and Abida Khatoon had to adjust to change on a grand scale.

It became a major money-spinner, and Shah Alam Khan, who was a sensible and even canny businessman despite his gentlemanly deportment, made intelligent investments in urban real estate, agricultural lands, a dairy farm and so on.

More importantly, multinational companies run by foreign-trained MBAs had changed the entire marketing paradigm of cigarettes and other consumer goods.