Talk:Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII

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[edit] Razakar

This article says that the Razakars were organised by the PM of Hyderabad but the Razakar article attribute it to one Qasim Razvi. From a quick google, Razvi was leader of Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (whatever it was) not the PM. It would be good it someone who knows the topic take a quick to look to see which is the correct one. Tintin (talk) 12:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Razvi was certainly not the PM of Hyderabad; he was an agitator who opposed the accession of Hyderabad unto India, ostensibly on behalf of a section of muslims. The Nawab of Chhatri was PM. ImpuMozhi 02:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

This article needs citations at a lot of places, and needs a cleanup to remove weasle words and POV statements, especially since it deals with the issue of the Partition of India and communal conflict. --Shree (talk) 12:15, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

Merger proposal has been standing for long and hence I shall now effect the merger. ImpuMozhi 02:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nizam.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Concentration of Wealth

The first Finance Commission of India reported that in 1950, the Union government treasury registered annual revenue of £334 million. Nizam Asaf Jah VII's fortune then was easily estimated at twice the sum.

How on earth was it possible? Rajasthan had more minerals than Andhra Pradesh.Anwar (talk) 15:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alleged frugality

Although he was one of the richest men in the world along with his brother Nawab Sakawath Jung Bahadur, the Nizam led a very simple life. His lifestyle was frugal, bordering on the miserly, and many legends about his parsimony have become apocryphal in Hyderabad. He would, paradoxically, use the 185-carat Jacob Diamond as a paperweight.

The previous seems dubious and trite. Let's see some sources for this and try to state it in terms of concrete and knowable facts rather than vague and haigiographic statments. Savidan 04:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)