Inheritance Of Loss The life and travails of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, who inherited a fortune but not a kingdom, and how he lost it all

From: India Today | Date: February 19, 2007| Author: Dilip Bobb | Copyright information

THE LAST NIZAM

By John Zubrzycki

Picador India

Price: Rs 395

Pages: 375

You could call it the William Dalrymple school of writing. Like The Last Mughal, which retraced the desecration and demise of an emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II, his dynasty, a city and a civilisation, John Zubrzycki does much the same with the Nizams of Hyderabad, mixing a historian's perspective, a scholar's research and a journalist's flair for language to chart the rise and fall of a d...

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