Word: nizam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather left him a fortune of several hundred million dollars, but play no glad ragas for Nawab Mir Barkat AH Khan, 34, Nizam of Hyderabad. The legacy also included a household staff of 14,000 hungry souls, and an accounting system so lax, says the Nizam, that "every restaurant in the vicinity was being secretly supplied with food from my grandfather's kitchens." So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees. There was nothing else to do: the Indian government has sliced...
Died. Mir Osman AH Khan Bahadur, 84, Nizam of Hyderabad, Eastern potentate and ruler of Hyderabad's 16 million, said to be the" world's richest man, with about $2 billion in gold, jewelry and art treasures, until Indian troops ended his rule in 1948, forcing him to accept a meager $900,000 yearly allowance, most of which he spent to support courtiers, bodyguards, concubines, servants and some 2,000 legitimate and illegitimate Nizam children, while he himself lived like a miser as a matter of personal choice, reputedly even darning his old socks; of influenza; in King...
...extent, Indian nonviolence is a wistful fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured violence against any country when it's to our interest...