Who was the Nizam of Hydrabad during 1946-47?

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UGC NET Paper-2: History 20th June 2019

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Mir Osman Ali was the Nizam of Hydrabad during 1946-47.Key Points

Hyderabad started as a vassal of the Mughal dynasty in 1713, and the ruler was known as Nizam.
Though more than 85 percent of its population comprised of Hindus, the Muslims controlled police, army and the civil services.
With the Indian Independence Act of 1947, the British left the princely states to decide whether they wanted to join India, Pakistan or remain independent.
By 1948, most of the states had merged with India except Hyderabad.
The Nizam’s ambitions, if realised, could have cut off north India from the south.
This is because Hyderabad ran across the Deccan plateau in the centre of the Indian subcontinent, with an area of more than 80,000 square miles.
Mir Osman Ali Khan (6 April 1886 – 24 February 1967), was the last Nizam of the Princely State of Hyderabad, the largest princely state in British India.
He was styled as His Exalted Highness-(H.E.H.) the Nizam of Hyderabad and was one of the wealthiest individuals of all time.