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When she reached marriageable age, many royal families sent marriage proposals for their heirs.
New Delhi: Durre Shehwar, the elder daughter-in-legislation of the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, is remembered this present day for her social and philanthropic work completed in Hyderabad. Shehwar was as soon as born in Turkey and grew up in France. She bought married in 1931 to the son of the enviornment’s richest man, the Nizam of Hyderabad. She spent her final years in London. She opened the doors of the Nizam’s family to modernity and did unparalleled work for the upliftment of girls in Hyderabad. Princess Shehwar was as soon as married to the eldest son of the seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Prince Azam Jah Bahadur.
This marriage established a relationship between two prominent Muslim households of the enviornment, the Turkish Khalifa and the Asaf Jahi of Hyderabad. Durre Shehwar was as soon as the best daughter of the Turkish Khalifa Abdul Majid II. She was as soon as born in 1914 and grew up with contemporary education and training in martial arts. She aspired to be her father’s inheritor.
In March 1924, Turkey became a republic, main to the end of the caliphate and the exile of the royal family from the country. Abdul Majid and his family settled in Nice, a southern French Mediterranean port city. The British Crimson Crescent Society, which sympathized with the ousted ruler, appealed to Muslim rulers spherical the enviornment to abet the ‘unhappy caliph.
Upon persuasion from Maulana Shaukat Ali and his brother Maulana Mohammad Ali, Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan determined to send the deposed caliph a lifetime pension of 300 pounds and allowances to several diversified kinfolk. When Durre Shehwar reached marriageable age, many royal Muslim households sent marriage proposals for their heirs, including the Shah of Persia and the King of Egypt.
Shaukat Ali asked Nizam to propose a marriage for his eldest son, Prince Azam Jah, to the daughter of the Khalifa. Shehwar’s father couldn't reject this alliance because Nizam had been his best give a carry to genuine thru tricky cases. The Khalifa then proposed marriage for Nizam’s youthful son, Prince Mouzam Jah, along with his brother’s daughter, Niloufar.
The weddings took space in a barely easy ceremony on November 12, 1931.
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