Word: asaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Asaf Ali, 64, India's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1947-48), Moslem husband of a firebrand Hindu socialist (Aruna Asaf Ali); of a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland, where he served as Indian minister...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...