Nizam Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah, Asaf Jah VIII (born 6 October 1933), less formally known as Mukarram Jah, has been the

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Nizam of Hyderabad The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...

since the death of his grandfather in 1967. He currently chairs the H.E.H. The Nizam's Charitable Trust and Mukarram Jah Trust for Education & Learning (MJTEL).

Biography

Mukarram Jah was born to

Azam Jah Azam Jah, Damat Walashan Sahebzada Nawab Sir Mir Himayat Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur Bayaffendi ( ur, اعظم جاہ داماد والاشان صاحب زادہ نواب سر میر حمایت علی خان بہادر بے آفندی) (21/22 Febru ...

, the son and heir of

Osman Ali Khan Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (5 or 6 April 1886 — 24 February 1967), was the last Nizam (ruler) of the Princely State of Hyderabad, the largest princely state in British India. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of ...

, the last reigning Nizam of Hyderabad state, by his wife

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, daughter of the last

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of the

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. Jah was educated in

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the Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, who prevised a school mode ...

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and in

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at Harrow and

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. He also studied at the

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and at the

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. Jah was a friend of India's first Prime Minister, Pandit

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, and stated in 2010 that Nehru had wanted him to become his personal envoy or the Indian ambassador to a Muslim country. His two main palaces in Hyderabad, Chowmahalla and

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, have been restored and opened to the public, the former as a museum showcasing the era of the Nizams and the latter as a luxury hotel. The Taj Falaknuma Palace Hotel opened in February 2010, having been leased to the

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, after some ten years of renovations. Like his father, Mukarram was the richest man in India until the 1980s. However, in the 1990s he lost some assets to divorce settlements. His net worth is nevertheless estimated at $US1 billion.

Marriages and issue

Mukarram Jah married five times. His first wife was a Turkish noble woman, Esra Birgin (b. 1936), and they married in 1959. Jah left his Hyderabad palace for a

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in the

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and divorced his wife, who did not want to move with him. In 1979, he married a former

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and employee of the

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, Helen Simmons (b. 1949 – d. 1989); she converted to Islam and changed her name to Aysha. After her death, he married

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(b. 1954 – d. 2017), a former

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in 1992, and divorced her after a five-year marriage in 1997. He married Jameela Boularous (b. 1972), from Morocco, in 1992. In 1994, he married Princess Ayesha Orchedi (b. 1959), who is Turkish. AsafJah8-Nanny Bombay-1933

Family

By Esra Birgin, Mukarram Jah had one son and one daughter: * Walashan Nawab Sahibzada Mir Azmet Ali Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur (b. 1962), also known as Azmet Jah (heir apparent), married 1994 to Princess Begum Sahiba Zainab Naz Jah (née Zeynep Naz Guvendiren) and has one son, has worked as a cameraman. **Murad Jah * Sahibzadi Shehkyar Unisa Begum (b. 1964), unmarried and without issue By Helen Simmons he had two sons: * Walashan Nawab Sahibzada Mir Alexander Azam Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur (b. 1979) * Walashan Nawab Sahibzada Mir Mohammod Umar Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur (1984-2004) deceased due to drug overdose By Manolya Onur he had a daughter: * Sahebzadi Nilufer Unisa Begum (b. 1992) By Jameela Boularous he had a daughter: * Sahebzadi Zairin Unisa Begum (b. 1994) Mukarram Jah has a brother Muffakham Jah.

Full style

His Exalted Highness His Exalted Highness is a rare hybrid of the title style Highness. It is used as a salutation style ''only'' for the Nizams of Hyderabad and Berar conferred by the British Government. See also *Mir Osman Ali Khan Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah ...

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and

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. ;Military titles Honorary

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Palaces

The palaces he owns *

Chowmahalla Palace Chowmahalla Palace or Chowmahallat (from ''chār mahallāt'', in Dakhini Urdu) is the palace of the Nizams of Hyderabad State in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was the seat of the Asaf Jahi dynasty and was the official residence of the Niz ...

, Hyderabad. *

Falaknuma Palace Falaknuma is a palace in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It originally belonged to the Paigah family, and was later owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad. It is on a hillock and covers a area in Falaknuma, from Charminar. It was built by Nawab Sir V ...

, Hyderabad. * Nazribagh Palace, Hyderabad. * Naukhanda Palace, Aurangabad. *

Chiraan Fort Palace Aiwan-i Begumpet, also known as Chiraan Fort Palace (Chiran Fort Club), and Devdi Fareed Nawaz Jung, or Devdi Nazir Nawaz Jung, was built in 1880 by Sir Viqar-ul-Umra, Amir of the Great Paigah Dynasty of Deccan who served as Prime Minister of ...

, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. *

Purani Haveli Purani Haveli also known as Masarrat Mahal palace is a palace located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was the official residence of the Nizam. It was also known as ''Haveli Khadeem'', which means old mansion, was constructed for Sikander Ja ...

Hyderabad. (Mukarram Jah Trust for education and Learning).

Complaint against Mukarram Jah

Nawab

Najaf Ali Khan Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

another grandson of 7th Nizam, met the Police Commissioner of Hyderabad and submitted a complaint along with supporting documents alleging that Prince Mukarram Jah, his ex-wife

Princess Esra Princess Qhabl Begum Sahiba Esra Birgen (born 1936) is a princess belonging to the Asaf Jah Dynasty of Hyderabad state by marriage. She was married to Prince Mukarram Jah. Princess Esra is a princess by marriage, not by birth. She is credite ...

, (who is also the General Power of Attorney (GPA) holder of Prince Mukarram Jah), his son Prince Azmet Jah and his brother Prince

Muffakham Jah Colonel Muffakham Jah Nawab Walashan Sahebzada Mir Karamath Ali Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur (born 27 February 1939) is the son of Prince Azam Jah and Princess Durru Shehvar, and grandson of the last Nizam of Hyderabad. An engineering colleg ...

had used false documents in the UK High Court to lay claim over the £35 million Nizam’s Fund lying in NatWest Bank there.

Ancestry

References

External links

Some recent photographs of the Nizam and the princely family

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jah, Mukarram 1933 births Living people The Doon School alumni Asaf Jahi dynasty Hyderabadi Muslims People educated at Harrow School Indian people of Turkish descent Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge