12 Facts About Mukarram Jah

Mukarram Jah was the head of the House of Asaf Jah until he died in 2023.

Mukarram Jah lost his titles and the privy purses in 1971 when the 26th Amendment to the Indian constitution was passed.

Mukarram Jah subsequently moved to Australia, where he stayed at the Murchison House Station.

Mukarram Jah was born to Azam Jah, the son and heir of Osman Ali Khan, the last reigning Nizam of Hyderabad state, by his wife Durrusehvar Sultan, daughter of the last Caliph of the Ottoman dynasty, Abdulmejid II.

Mukarram Jah was educated in India at the Doon School in Dehradun and in England at Harrow and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Mukarram Jah studied at the London School of Economics and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Mukarram Jah stayed at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi for a while and briefly served as an honorary aide-de-camp of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Mukarram Jah stated in 2010 that Nehru had wanted him to become his personal envoy or the Indian ambassador to a Muslim country.

Mukarram Jah became the titular Nizam of Hyderabad after the death of his grandfather in 1967.

Mukarram Jah bought the farm and permanently moved to Australia.

Mukarram Jah's remains were laid in state at the Chowmahalla Palace, where family members and government officials paid their respects.

Mukarram Jah left his Hyderabad palace for a sheep station in the Australian outback and divorced his wife, who did not want to move with him.