This eccentric Indian ruler was the world's richest man. He had 86 mistresses, 100 illegitimate sons and employed 38 staff to dust palace chandeliers. Yet the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Sir Osman ...

And how did the Nizams start ruling Hyderabad? Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar in 1712 convinced Qamaruddin to take over as viceroy of the Deccan with the hereditary title of Nizam-ul-Mulk (Regulator ...

Nizam, shortened from Nizam-ul-Mulk, and also called Asaf Jah, means the “Administrator of the Realm.” The first Nizam of Hyderabad was Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi.

Thus, was born the Asaf Jahi dynasty that ruled Hyderabad until 1948. Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah I (1724–48) Nizam-ul-Mulk’s greatest achievement was the foundation of the princely state of Hyderabad.

Through The Last Nizam, Zubrzycki traces the history of Nizams and Hyderabad – of a state the size of France that was known for its grace, glory, grandeur and gastronomical delights.

Nizam-ul-Mulk became Asaf Jah 1 and established the Asaf Jahi dynasty of the Nizams. But it was in 1769 that Hyderabad got preeminence after Nizam Ali Khan Asaf Jah II, ...

Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, ...

Nizam ul Mulk died in 1748. The same year when the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed ending the war in Europe and restoration of Madras to the English.

On October 11, 1724, the Nizam established autonomous rule over the Deccan region and started what came to be known as the Asaf Jahi dynasty. Subsequent rulers retained the title Nizam ul-Mulk and ...

Hyderabad got “independence” only a year and a month later, following a “police action” by the Indian military forces on the then autocratic and adamant ruler, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th ...

HYDERABAD: Prince Muffakham Jah released the second volume of the History of Modern Deccan compiled by the Abul Kalam Institute of Oriental Research here on Tuesday. Addressing a gathering ...

HYDERABAD: Around 150 km from Aurangabad in a place called Shakar Kheda, Mubariz Khan, the Mughal governor of Hyderabad, forges ahead with his battalion against Nizam-ul-Mulk, the new Mughal ...