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

10.3.2 Salar Jung reforms and modernisation under the sixth and seventh Nizams

Diwan Salar Jung I (1853–1883) rebuilt the Nizam's government on modern lines (paid district officials, ministries, courts, schools, a standard currency and the first railway), and the sixth and seventh Nizams added railways, reservoirs, Osmania University, hospitals, industries and a state bank, making Hyderabad the most developed princely state while power stayed with the ruler.

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Key terms

  • Salar Jung I
  • Mir Turab Ali Khan
  • Diwan 1853–1883
  • Zilabandi
  • talukdar
  • Sadr-ul-Mahams 1868
  • revenue farming
  • survey and settlement
  • Hali Sicca
  • Dar-ul-Uloom 1854
  • Nizam College 1887
  • Syed Hussain Bilgrami
  • Salar Jung II
  • Urdu official language 1884
  • Qanooncha-e-Mubarak 1893
  • Wadi–Secunderabad railway 1874
  • Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
  • Nizam's State Railway 1930
  • Kacheguda 1916
  • Musi flood 1908
  • Visvesvaraya
  • Osman Sagar 1920
  • Himayat Sagar 1927
  • Nizam Sagar
  • Ali Nawaz Jung
  • Telangana Engineers Day
  • Osmania University 1917
  • Osmania General Hospital
  • High Court building
  • Hyderabad State Bank 1941
  • Osmania Sicca 1918
  • Singareni Collieries 1920
  • Industrial Trust Fund 1929
  • Sirpur paper mills
  • Azam Jahi Mills
  • Bodhan sugar factory
  • Deccan Airways
  • Deccan Radio 1935
  • Executive Council 1919
  • Salar Jung Museum

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