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| '''Hyderābād''' was an autonomous ] of south-central ] from ] until ], ruled by a hereditary '''Nizam''', and an Indian ] from 1948 to ]. Its capital city ] was for most of that time one of India's four largest cities. | |||
| Hyderabad was founded by the ] of ]. In 1686 the ] emperor ] campaigned in the Deccan to tame the ]s and conquer the independent Deccan states. Before the campaign, the Mughals had controlled the northwestern ], including ] and ], but Mughal control ended at the ]. Aurangzeb conquered Golconda and ] in 1687, extending Mughal control south of the ]. | |||
| The Mughal Empire began to weaken during the reign of Aurangzeb's grandson, ]. A Mughal official, Asif Jah, defeated a rival Mughal governor to seize control of the empire's southern provinces, declaring himself Nizam-al-Mulk of Hyderabad in 1724. The Mughal emperor, under renewed attack from the Marathas, was unable to prevent it. | |||
| The seniormost (21-gun) ] in ], Hyderabad was an 82,000 square mile (212,000 km²) ] in the ] ruled by the Asaf Jah dynasty of Muslim rulers, who had the title of Nizam and style of His Exalted Higness. The Nizams ruled over the wealthiest state in ] at that time, controlling some 16,500,000 people. During the height of Hyderabad's wealth in the 1930's the Nizam was the world's richest man, famous for employing 11,000 servants and using the Jacob Diamond as a paperweight. | |||
| When India became independent on ], ], the Muslim Nizam refused to accede to the Indian Union, although it entirely surrounded his territory, demanding the right as ruler of 18 million (overwhelmingly Hindu) subjects to rule a separate state. The resulting standoff ended with the state's occupation by Indian troops on ]-], 1948 and its incorporation as a state of India the next year. The current Nizam, ], lives in ]. | |||
| In November ] Hyderabad was divided along linguistic lines, with the northeastern ]-speaking region, including the city of ], assigned to ], the ]-speaking western region assigned to the new state of ], and ], the ]-speaking northwestern region of the state, assigned to ], later ]. | |||
| ==Nizams of Hyderabad, 1724-1949== | |||
| *] 1724-1748 | |||
| *] 1748-1750 | |||
| *] 1750-1751 | |||
| *] 1751-1762 | |||
| *] 1762-1802 | |||
| *] 1802-1829 | |||
| *] 1829-1857 | |||
| *] 1857-1869 | |||
| *] 1869-1911 | |||
| *] 1911-1949 | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
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