Word: nizam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's aging (69) Nizam of Hyderabad indicated that he intends to stay put there, even though next year's dissolution of his realm will put him out of a job. As unemployed potentates go, the adamant Nizam will get on pretty well. When Hyderabad agreed to union with India in 1949, the Nizam wangled some lofty guarantees of the style to which he is accustomed. Items: the continued right to be called His Exalted Highness, a taxfree privy purse of $1 million a year, plus a yearly $500,000 to run his menage and another half million...
Died. Sahebzadi Azam-Un-Nisa Begum Saheba, 65, first of the four wives (two still alive) of His Exalted Highness Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, 72, often reputed to be the world's richest man (estimated assets: $1 to $2 billion), and mother of the Nizam's heir, Azam Jah, 48, Prince of Berar; in Hyderabad, India. In addition to his surviving wives, the Nizam has 42 women in his harem, 33 living children, 46 grandchildren...
...success of The Mouse was instant and immense. The League of Nations endorsed him. Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...
Then Vinoba Bhave thought of asking landowners to give land to the landless, saying (or at least politely implying) that if they did not, the Communists or the government might take it away. Thus Bhoomidan-yagna was born, in bloody Telingana. Even the Nizam of Hyderabad, reputed one of the richest and most miserly men in the world, gave some land, though neither the Nizam nor Bhave would say how much (the merit acquired by giving is lost by boasting of it). Some 35,000 acres were collected and reassigned to the most destitute. Gradually the revolt and the terror...
Married. Prince Muazzam Jah, 43, second son of the Nizam ("richest man in the world") of Hyderabad; and Sahebzadi Anwar Begum, 18, daughter of a wealthy Indian landowner; he for the second time (his first: Princess Niloufer ["Blue Lotus"] of Turkey), she for the first; in his father's King Kothi palace; in Hyderabad...