Mukarram Jah, the last Nizam of Hyderabad, married former Miss Turkey Manolya Onur, who was also a member of the Ottoman ...

The nizam never claimed the title “caliph ... It helped propel Hyderabad, widely seen as the successor state to the mighty Mughal empire, to the status of a “capital city for all Muslims ...

Of the Nizam of Hyderabad it can be truly said that he is the man who has everything. In his 72 years, he ruled a state of 18 million people, bossed a brilliantly uniformed army of 22,000 men ...

His career as a top administrative officer in the Nizam’s government was replete with intrigue, daring exploits and legal battles and offers a glimpse into the complexities of colonial-era ...

Golconda mines were then, the, only known diamond mines in the world. The 7th Nizam used a 1,000 crore rupees worth of Jacob diamond as a paper weight. The reign of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last ...

But on that April afternoon he found himself performing rituals left over from India’s Mughal Empire, which had collapsed more than a century earlier. Mr. Jah was crowned the nizam of Hyderabad.

Notably, these Nizams ruled under the Mughal Empire, and when the empire weakened, they rebelled, establishing their own state. Regarding the “Marwari Seth’s son” controversy, Mehboob Ali ...

Who were the Nizams of Hyderabad? Hyderabad was formed as an Independent successor state of the Mughal Empire and later came under protection of the British East India Company. Hyderabad was the ...