Last surviving daughter of Nizam passes away

Correspondent

HYDERABAD, July 28 2020 (HS): Sahebzadi Basheerunnisa Begum, the last surviving daughter of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last ruler of erstwhile Hyderabad State, passed away here Tuesday. She was 93.

She breathed her last at her residence in Purani Haveli Tuesday morning. She is survived by her only daughter Rasheedunnisa Begum.

She was buried at Dargah Hazrat Yahiya Pasha in the old city of Hyderabad. Several members of the Nizam’s family participated in the funeral.

Basheerunnissa Begum was married to Nawab Kazim Yar Jung, better known as Ali Pasha, who passed away in 1998.

Mir Osman Ali Khan, who was the world’s richest man of his time, died in 1967.The last Nizam had refused to accede to India after the country’s independence on August 15, 1947.

He wanted to keep Hyderabad as an independent state. The princely state finally merged with the Indian Union in September 1948 after an operation by the Indian Army.