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While the last of these details was being haggled out, Hyderabad's two princes knelt for more than 30 minutes before propped up pictures of their brides. With aching knees they rose at last. Crown Prince Azam Jah was married to Caliph's Daughter Princess Durri Chehvar, 18. Prince Moazzam Jah espoused Caliph's Cousin Princess Hadice Nilufer, 16. Both weddings were double, a civil marriage by the local British consul and a religious service by His Holiness who was said to have remarked, "Do you know I have never performed a marriage before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nizam's Azam and Moazzam | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...Islam's rich & pious, notably by His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, richest Indian potentate, reputedly "Richest Man in the World." In Nice last week the "secret engagement" of the Exalted Nizam's eldest son, Sahib Zada Nawah Azam Jah, to the Holy Caliph's beauteous daughter, Durri Chehvar, was ostentatiously bruited. If the secret proves popular with 200,000,000 Moslems it will become no secret but a thumping fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISLAM: Caliph's Beauteous Daughter | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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