Hakim Ajmal Khan

Hakim Ajmal Khan (1868-1927) of the Sharīf Khān family of Delhi hakīms, the most prominent twentieth-century exponent of Unani-Tibb and the founder of the Āyurvedic and Unani Tibbia College at Karol Bagh (1916), of the Hindustāni Dawākhāna (1906, later Hamdard), and of the Hamdard National Foundation. He was simultaneously the president of the Indian National Congress (1921) and of the Muslim League, chaired the Khilafat Conference, and co-founded Jamia Millia Islamia with Dr Zakir Husain. His research on Rauwolfia serpentina with Dr Salimuzzaman Siddiqui at Tibbia produced the first chemically-isolated anti-hypertensive, later marketed as reserpine.