Word: berar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received a cutting from your esteemed paper dealing with the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the proposed Nizamiah Mosque in London, by H. H. the Prince of Berar on June 4 [TIME, June...
...ceremony he would have enjoyed- the cornerstone-laying of London's new mosque. To be built on a $140,000 site in West Kensington, the Nizamiah Mosque is so called because the biggest donation for it, $300,000, was wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present chairman of trustees, Sir Abdul Qadir, read an illuminated address...
...extensive as Hyderabad which is about the size of the United Kingdom and there last week the Royal Family of the Asatia Dynasty celebrated the Silver Jubilee of "The Richest Man in the World," Lieut. General His Exalted Highness Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar...
Uncorked amid huzzahs was an appointment signed by His Majesty Edward VIII, and saved up for last week's Jubilee Durbar, creating Hyderabad's Crown Prince Azam Jah additionally Prince of Berar. Thus officially ended was the long dispute over Berar which was almost taken away from Hyderabad by domineering Viceroy Lord Curzon. Berar is about the size of Switzerland, immensely valuable because its peculiar soil produces the finest cotton which can be grown in India...
...Akbar Hydari whose importance far eclipses his modest title of Finance and Railway Member of the State Executive Council of Hyderabad (see cut, p. 22). It was he who so stirred up the Chamber of Princes that eventually the British Raj, which when Lord Curzon was Viceroy acquired Berar from Hyderabad, was constrained to agree that Berar "has always belonged" and should now be returned to Hyderabad. Thus appeased, the Nizam of Hyderabad may well be the first 21-gun Indian potentate to sign, or foxy Sir Akbar at the last moment may advise His Exalted Highness to hold...