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...same can be said of pomaded, 49-year-old Azam Jah, Prince of Berar and eldest son of India's wizened, 72-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad. Nobody knows exactly how rich the Prince's father is. For one thing, a pack of rats recently chewed their way through $8,000,000 in currency stored in moldy trunks in the Nizam's palace vaults, leaving their value in question. For another, the old Nizam abruptly fired a man hired to count and appraise his trunks full of jewels when he heard the job would take a year...
Changing Ways. Times have changed in India since the days when the Nizam was absolute autocrat of Hyderabad, could dress in encrusted brocade and im port whole jazz bands from England to play his favorite tunes, Whispering and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. As a civil servant now, subservient to the New Delhi government, he has to struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching...
...Nizam's son is a different matter. Black-eyed, balding and debonair, a married man whose wife lives far away in London, Prince Azam Jah passes his days playing polo, sticking pigs and studying the racing form, his evenings frolicking in a tiled swimming pool with the 50 ladies of his harem. *Having all these pleasures on a monthly allowance of $10,000 might well be a strain on others, but for Azam it was easy. He simply ran up bills. After all, he assured his bookies, he would one day be Nizam...
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...