Father Osman Ali Khan Name Azam Jah | Died October 7, 1970 | |
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Born 22 February 1907 ( 1907-02-22 ) Issue Mukarram JahMuffakham Jah Mother Sahebzadi Azam unnisa Begum Spouse Princess Durru Shehvar (m. 1931) Parents Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII Similar People Princess Durru Shehvar, Osman Ali Khan - Asaf Jah VII, Mukarram Jah, Abdulmecid II, Moazzam Jah | ||
Azam Jah, Damat Walashan Sahebzada Nawab Sir Mir Himayat Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur Bayaffendi (Urdu: اعظم جاہ داماد والاشان صاحب زادہ نواب سر میر حمایت علی خان بہادر بے آفندی) (21/22 February 1907 – 9 October 1970) was the eldest son of the seventh and last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan Siddiqi Asif Jah VII and mother Sahebzadi Azam unisa Begum d/o Sahebzada Mir Jhangir Ali Khan Siddiqi In 1936 he was given the courtesy title of Prince of Berar, a territory of the Nizam then leased in perpetuity to the British and administered by them.
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Azam Jah married Princess Durru Shehvar, a member of the House of Osman (formerly of the Ottoman Empire) and the daughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II, in Nice on 12 November 1932. The marriage failed after producing two sons.
On the death of the VII Nizam, the title passed to Azam Jah's elder son, Sahebzada Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah, as eighth Nizam, who was still the pretender to the throne of Hyderabad. as of 2013 Azam's younger son is Sahebzada Mir Karamat Ali Khan Siddiqi Muffakham Jah.
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Residence
He lived at Bella Vista, Hyderabad, a 10-acre (40,000 m2) palace near Hussain Sagar.
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