Nizam of Hyderabad |Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad| |Coat of Arms|
|Osman Ali Khan| |First monarch||Qamaruddin Khan| |Last
monarch||Osman Ali Khan| |Style||His Exalted Highness| |Official
residence||Chowmahalla Palace| |Monarchy started||31 July 1720|
|Monarchy ended||17 September 1948| Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad
popularly known as Nizam of Hyderabad, was a former monarchy of
the Hyderabad State, now divided into the states of Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra on a linguistic basis. Nizam,
shortened from Nizam-ul-Mulk, meaning Administrator of the
Realm, was the title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad
State, since 1724, belonging to the Asaf Jah dynasty. The
dynasty was founded by Mir Qamar-ud-Din Siddiqi, a viceroy of
the Deccan under the Mughal emperors from 1713 to 1721 and he
intermittently ruled after Aurangzeb's death in 1707 and under
the title Asaf Jah in 1724, the Mughal Empire crumbled and the
viceroy in Hyderabad, the young Asaf Jah, declared himself
independent. From 1798 Hyderabad was one