Word: hyderabad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, India's largest native State, rates a 21-gun salute from British batteries and numbers among his many titles that of "Faithful Ally of the British Government." In World War I the Nizam demonstrated his faithfulness by giving four crores* of rupees ($15,000,000) to Great Britain's war fund, including a $400,000 grant for anti-submarine warfare. He also placed the services of the Hyderabad troops at the King-Emperor's disposal...
...this war's outbreak the "Faithful Ally of the British Government" came through again by contributing $400,000, this time to the British Air Ministry. Last week His Exalted Highness announced a further contribution-$45,000 monthly for the support of Hyderabad cavalry and infantry which may be called for service outside the State...
Scattered throughout India are 562 native states, which range all the way from Hyderabad, with the area of England and Scotland together, a population of 14,436,148 and an annual revenue of about $30,000,000, down to an estate no bigger than an elephant stockade, with 32 souls and not enough annual income to buy silk for a single turban. But by & large, the states' incomes are fabulous. An astounding proportion goes to the native rulers. One rupee in every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound...
None of the Indian princes, although they have been under the heaviest pressure from New Delhi to enter the Federation, had last week signed on the dotted line. Last December, speaking for His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, "Richest Man in the World," and ruler of India's most important state, Sir Akbar Hydari said of Federation: "So far from being anywhere near finality, we have not yet reached the state of negotiations." A few weeks ago, after personal aides of King George and experts of the India Office had journeyed out to the Empire, judged the temper...
...building of the Mosque commences. Apart from other things, that design was much too ambitious and expensive for the funds at the disposal of the Nizamiah Mosque Trust and has had to be given up. The present Board of Trustees has requested an Engineer in the service of the Hyderabad State in India to prepare a new design, with due regard to the resources available to the Trust, and he is now preparing it. On the receipt of that design and its approval by the Trustees, it may be possible to start the building...