Asaf Jah VI.

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Asaf Jah VI.

Fath Jang Mahbub Ali II Khan Asaf Jah VI. (* August 17, 1866 in the Purani Haveli of Hyderabad ; † August 29, 1911 in the Falaknuma Palace of Hyderabad) was the nizam of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad from February 28, 1869 until his death and thus the highest of the Indian princes in terms of protocol during colonial times . His full titles, in the tradition of the Mughal court , were: Lieutenant-General Asaf Jah, Muzaffar-ul-Mamalik, Rustam-i-Dauran, Arastu-i-Zaman, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Nizam-ud-daula, Nawab Mir Sir Mahbub Ali Khan Bahadur, Fath Jang, GCB , GCSI .

youth

His Highness riding an elephant in procession from Moula Ali (ca.1895).

After his father Asaf Jah V died when the boy was barely three years old, he and his kingdom came under the reign of Salar Jung I along with Shams ul-Umara . He was trained by private tutors, including brothers John and Claude Clerke, both captains in the Indian army . He made his first public appearance in Delhi in 1877 on Proclamation Day. On this occasion he received the Kaisar-i-Hind-Medal in gold. The British Viceroy Lord Ripon , to whom he had already been introduced in Calcutta in 1883 , agreed to the investiture of the 18-year-old, which took place on Feb. 5, 1884 in Hyderabad in the presence of the Viceroy. His first wife was Begum Amat-uz-Zahrunnisa. His eldest son died in 1887.

Domination

Coat of arms of the rulers of Hyderabad during colonial times

He supported the imperialist policy of the British, who valued him very much, with troop contingents in Egypt in 1885 and the offer to fight an expected Russian invasion (via Afghanistan) and to pay Rs. 600,000. This offer formed the impetus for the establishment of the Imperial Service Troops , contingents of the princely armies that had been made available to the British since 1889. They served - under British officers - in the colonial wars in the Boxer Rebellion , the first campaigns in Somaliland and on the border with Afghanistan .

The first turning away from the absolutist form of government came on Feb. 20, 1893 with the proclamation of the Qanoon-cha-Mubarak, whereby the divan (title: Madar-ul-Moham ) added a few deputy ministers ( Moin-ul-Maham ) and a legislature Council, with initially six appointed members, was created. However, this, which was expanded in the following years, was not allowed to initiate any laws, but only to discuss given topics and in no way undertake anything that would have restricted the rights of the ruler in the least. Nothing changed about this situation until 1948. The state was severely affected by the devastating famines in 1898 and 1900–02 (officially 1.5 million starved people) with the following epidemics . Insofar as economic development - in the capitalist sense - took place, it was limited to the capital and the surrounding district ( Atraf-i-Balda ). These areas, about a tenth of the country, were the private property of the Nizam as Sarf-i-kas land . In financial matters he could be extremely generous, but also naive, which is why it was easy for his police chief to defraud him of £ 125,000 in the award of the mining concession to the Hyderabad (Deccan) Company in 1887 . The Nizam only wore an item of clothing twice when it had been cleaned in Paris and reserved two floors of a wing of the palace for cloakroom. He was enthusiastic about horse racing and the upcoming automobiles. Three of the Rolls-Royce purchased were still used by his son on his silver jubilee.

Under his rule fall the agreement that allowed the British to annex the province of Berar , which had been "leased" for 50 years, to their Central Provinces . On September 28, 1908, the overflowing Musi caused devastating damage to the capital .

At Lord Curzon's Delhi Durbar in 1903 he took part with a bodyguard of 50 mounted and 200 foot soldiers. In 1911 S. M. Kaiser Wilhelm II deigned to present him with the Prussian Red Eagle Order .

He died at the age of 46 after a stroke in the Falaknuma Palace . Like his predecessors, he is buried in the Mecca mosque in Hyderabad.

literature

  • Bawa, Vasant K .; The Interregnum in Hyderabad after the Death of Salar Jung I: 1883-1884; IBR, Vol. 15 (1988), pp. 79-89
  • Moulyi Syed Mahdi (Revenue and Financial Secretary); Hyderabad Papers Vol IX: English Newspaper Comments on the Hyderabad (Deccan) Mining Company ...; London 1889 ( full text )
  • Sethia, Tara; Berar and the Nizam's State Railway: Politics of British Interests in Hyderabad State, 1853-1883; IBR Vol. 15 (1988), pp. 59-61.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ awarded Feb. 5, 1885
  2. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series, Hyderabad State; 1909
  3. ^ Cover story Time Feb. 22, 1937

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personal data
SURNAME Asaf Jah VI.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fath Jang Mahbub Ali II Khan (nickname); Fateh Jang Nawab Mir Mahboob Ali Khan Siddiqi, Asaf Jah VI (alternative transcription); మహబూబ్ ఆలీఖాన్ (Telugu)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nizam of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad (1869–1911)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Purani Haveli of Hyderabad (Deccan)
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1911
Place of death Falaknuma Palace of Hyderabad (Dekkan)