This episode traces the Asaf Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad from its founding, when Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan defeated the Mughal governor Mubariz Khan at the Battle of Shakar Kheda in 1724 and took the title Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah. It follows the dynasty through the eighteenth-century struggles with the Marathas, Mysore, and European powers, including the Subsidiary Alliance with the British in 1798, and into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of palace building, reform, and growing British oversight. The account ends with the reign of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Razakars, and the Indian army's 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, which ended the dynasty's sovereignty.
More: https://thelineagearchive.com/dynasty/asaf-jahi-dynasty
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