In early 1972, His Exalted Highness, the Rustam of the Age, the Aristotle of the Times, Wal
Mamaluk, Asaf Jah VIII, the Conqueror of Dominions, the Regulator of the Realm, Nawab Mir
Barakat Ali Khan Bahadur, The Victor in Battles, the Leader of Armies, the Nizam of
Hyderabad and Berar, arrived in Western Australia and bought himself an outback station,
beginning one of the most incongruous episodes in the history of India's richest princely
dynasty.
The Last Nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how
the last Nizam gave up a kingdom to come to the backblocks of outback Australia. With vivid
detail and anecdote the book charts the rise of the dynasty to fabulous wealth and
prominence under the Mughul emperors of India, giving a rich and vibrant portrait of a realm
soaked in blood and intrigue. Above all it describes the strange â sometimes comic,
sometimes tragic â life of Mukarram Jah, the last Nizam, who left behind him the fabulous
wealth of Golconda and the palaces of Hyderabad to drive bulldozers in the Australian bush.