Word: nizam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his villa on The Riviera for a visit to Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season...
Divorced. By Prince Muazzam Jah, 43, second son of the Nizam ("richest man in the world") of Hyderabad: Princess Niloufer, 38, beauteous niece of the last Turkish Caliph, Abdul Medjid II ; for unnamed reasons when the Prince followed Moslem divorce proceedings by intoning "Talak" (divorce) three times before two witnesses; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Hyderabad...
Fifty-five retainers were sent on ahead to ready the Nizam's 100-room New Delhi palace (which has been mostly taken over by Indian government offices since India absorbed Hyderabad in 1948). Most of the Nizam's 70 wives wanted to go along, but the Nizam, explained an official, "decided to be selective." Only 15 were picked, along with ten of the Nizam's 36 children and some 56 physicians, barbers, nurses and servants, to join his three-airplane voyage to India's capital...
Instead of the frayed and buttonless clothes which he wears around the home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around...
Main event of the Nizam's first trip "outside" in 16 years: a meeting with a few fellow princes and potentates for two days of reflection on the sad state of highnesses now that India is a republic. The good old regal powers were all gone; now they had nothing left but money-and the Nizam had most of that...