Hyderabad, Jan 15 (PTI) Mukarram Jah, the titular Nizam VIII, passed away in Istanbul, Turkey. He died on January 14, according to a statement issued by one of his offices on Sunday. He was 89.
Born in 1933, he moved to Turkey and was residing there.
“We are deeply saddened to inform that Nawab Mir Barket Ali Khan Walashan Mukarram Jah Bahadur, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad passed away peacefully in Istanbul, Turkey, late Saturday at 10:30pm (IST),” the statement said.
As per his desire of being laid to rest in his homeland, his children are scheduled to travel to Hyderabad with the mortal remains of the late Nizam on January 17, it said.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao expressed condolences. He conveyed his sympathies to the bereaved family, a CMO release said.
In recognition of Mukarram Jah’s social services in the fields of education and medicine for the poor as the successor of the Nizam, Rao directed Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari to conduct Jah’s last rites with the highest State honours.
On arrival, the body would be taken to the Chowmahalla Palace and after completing the required rituals the burial would take place at the Asaf Jahi family tombs, it further said.
Mukarram Jah was born to Mir Himayat Ali Khan alias Azam Jah Bahadur, the first son of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the seventh Nizam of the Princely State of Hyderabad before it was merged with the Indian Union in 1948. PTI GDK VVK NVG NVG
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