Paper I · 10 History of Telangana & the Statehood Movement · 10.3 Asaf Jahis and the Nizam's Hyderabad

10.3.1 Asaf Jahi dynasty: from Nizam-ul-Mulk to Mir Osman Ali Khan, British paramountcy and 1857 in Hyderabad

Mir Qamaruddin (Nizam-ul-Mulk) made the Mughal Deccan his own state after Shakar Kheda (1724); his successors lost the coast (1766–68), accepted the Subsidiary Alliance (1798) and ceded the Ceded Districts (1800) and Berar (1853) to the British, stood by the British in 1857, and ruled Hyderabad under British paramountcy until 1948.

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Key terms

  • Asaf Jahi
  • Nizam-ul-Mulk
  • Mir Qamaruddin
  • Chin Qilich Khan
  • Shakar Kheda 1724
  • Mubariz Khan
  • Aurangabad
  • Palkhed 1728
  • Nasir Jung
  • Muzaffar Jung
  • Salabat Jung
  • Dupleix
  • Bussy
  • Nizam Ali Khan
  • Northern Circars
  • treaty of 1766
  • treaty of 1768
  • Guntur 1788
  • Kharda 1795
  • Raymond
  • Gun Foundry
  • Musarambagh
  • Subsidiary Alliance 1798
  • Wellesley
  • Kirkpatrick
  • Ceded Districts 1800
  • Sikandar Jah
  • Secunderabad
  • Chandu Lal
  • Palmer and Company
  • Russell Brigade
  • Hyderabad Contingent
  • Metcalfe
  • Nasir-ud-Daula
  • Wahabi movement
  • Mubariz-ud-Daula
  • Berar 1853
  • Siraj-ul-Mulk
  • Afzal-ud-Daula
  • Turrebaz Khan
  • Maulvi Allauddin
  • Residency attack 17 July 1857
  • Mahbub Ali Khan
  • Lord Ripon 1884
  • Berar lease 1902
  • Mir Osman Ali Khan
  • Faithful Ally
  • Rajpramukh

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