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- The Viceroy Who Never Went Back: Hyderabad under the Nizams, 1724–1948 — essay · Hyderabad Nizams · 20 sourcesA Mughal governor stopped reporting to Delhi and a state lasted two hundred and twenty-four years. At its end it was the largest and richest principality in India, with its own coinage, railway, airline and university — and an administration in which the majority of its people held almost none of the senior posts. Both of those sentences are documented from the state's own records. This essay sets out the spine of the story; the archive examines its most disputed limbs separately, on eight claim pages, and does not soften what they found.
- Hyderabad — the Nizams (Asaf Jahis) — Dynasty · 1724 – 1948 · Hyderabad NizamsDates mark Chin Qilich Khan's de facto independence as Mughal governor of the Deccan, taking the title Asaf Jah (1137/1724), to the state's forced integration into the Indian Union in 1948.
- Chin Qilich Khan, Qamar al-Din Nizam al-Mulk (Asaf Jah I) — Person · r. 1720 – 1748 · Hyderabad NizamsMughal governor of the Deccan who became independent at Hyderabad and received the title Asaf Jah.
- Nasir Jang — Person · r. 1748 – 1751 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Nizam al-Mulk who succeeded him as ruler of Hyderabad in 1748.
- Muzaffar Jang — Person · r. 1751 – 1752 · Hyderabad NizamsSon-in-law of Nizam al-Mulk, named in Bosworth's table as his successor in 1751.
- Salabat Jang — Person · r. 1752 – 1762 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Nizam al-Mulk who ruled Hyderabad from 1752.
- Nizam Ali Khan — Person · r. 1762 – 1803 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Nizam al-Mulk who ruled Hyderabad from 1762.
- Sikandar Jah — Person · r. 1803 – 1829 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Nizam Ali Khan who succeeded him in 1803.
- Farkhanda Ali Khan, Nasir al-Dawla — Person · r. 1829 – 1857 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Sikandar Jah, styled Nasir al-Dawla, who ruled Hyderabad from 1829.
- Mir Mahbub Ali I, Afdal al-Dawla — Person · r. 1857 – 1869 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Farkhanda Ali Khan, styled Afdal al-Dawla, who ruled Hyderabad from 1857.
- Mir Mahbub Ali II — Person · r. 1869 – 1911 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Mahbub Ali I who acceded in 1869 and ruled under the regency of Salar Jang until 1884.
- Mir Uthman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fath Jang — Person · r. 1911 – 1948 · Hyderabad NizamsSon of Mahbub Ali II, the last Nizam of Hyderabad; the state was forcibly integrated into the Indian Union in 1948.