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{{Infobox royalty
|name = Mir Barakat Ali Khan
|title = Asaf Jah VIII
|image = AsafJahVIII-Dürrühshehvar 1stOfficialPic 1934.jpeg
|image_size =
|caption = Jah with his mother Princess [[Durru Shehvar]], Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire.
|succession = 8th [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] ([[Titular ruler|titular]])
|reign = 24 February 1967 – 5 November 1971 (pretender since 1971)
|moretext =
|coronation = 6 April 1967
|reign-type =
|predecessor = [[Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII|Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII]]
|successor = [[Prince Azmet Jah|Azmet Jah]]
|suc-type = Heir apparent
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1933|10|06|df=y}}
|birth_place = Hilafet Palace, [[Nice]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
|death_date =
|death_place =
|spouse = [[Princess Esra Birgin]] (1959–1974; divorced) Aysha Simmons (1979–1989; widowed) [[Manolya Onur]] (1992–1997; divorced) Jameela Boularous (co-wife) (since 1992) Princess Ayesha Orchedi (co-wife) (since 1994)
|issue = [[Prince Azmet Jah Sahebzada Mir Azmet Ali Khan Siddiqi]] Sahibzadi Shehkyar Azam Jah Sahebzada Alexander Ali Khan Siddiqi Umar Jah, Sahebzada Mohammod Umar Ali Khan Siddiqi (deceased) Nilufer
 Zairin
|house = [[House of Asaf Jah]] [[House of Osman]]
|father = [[Azam Jah]]
|mother = [[Princess Durru Shehvar]]
|religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
}}
'''Nizam Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah, Asaf Jah VIII''' (born 6 October 1933), less formally known as '''Mukarram Jah''', has been the [[Titular ruler|titular]] [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] since the death of his grandfather in 1967.<ref name="Zubrzycki">{{Citation | last = Zubrzycki | first = John | title = The Last Nizam: An Indian Prince in the Australian Outback | publisher = Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited | year = 2006 | isbn = 1-4050-3722-9}}</ref>

He currently chairs the H.E.H. The Nizam's Charitable Trust and Mukarram Jah Trust for Education & Learning (MJTEL).<ref>[https://www.deccanchronicle.com/131220/news-current-affairs/article/nizam-mukarram-jah-trust-education-and-learning-wins-tax-fight Nizam Mukarram Jah Trust] at deccanchronicle.com</ref>

==Biography==
Mukarram Jah was born to [[Azam Jah]], the son and heir of [[Osman Ali Khan]], the last reigning Nizam of Hyderabad state, by his wife [[Durru Shehvar|Princess Durru Shehvar]], daughter of the last [[Ottoman Caliph|Caliph]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], [[Abdulmejid II]].<ref>{{Citation | title = Princess Durru Shehvar passes away | date = 2006-02-09 | url = http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/09/stories/2006020919300500.htm| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071025025100/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/09/stories/2006020919300500.htm| url-status = dead| newspaper = [[The Hindu]] | archive-date = 2007-10-25}}</ref> Jah was educated in India at [[The Doon School]], [[Dehradun]] where he finished most of his schooling. He then completed the rest of his education in [[Harrow School|Harrow]], [[Peterhouse, Cambridge|Peterhouse]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], the [[London School of Economics]], and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Singh | first = Kishore | title = India's wealthiest man the country forgot | newspaper = Business Standard | date = 2007-03-30 | url = http://business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=279415}}</ref>

Jah was a friend of India's first Prime Minister, Pandit [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], and stated in 2010 that Nehru had wanted him to become his personal envoy or the Indian ambassador to a Muslim country.<ref>{{Citation | title = Nehru had big plans for me, says Mukarram Jah | date = 2010-03-14 | url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-14/hyderabad/28126361_1_chiran-palace-prince-mukarram-jah-prime-minister| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110811050901/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-14/hyderabad/28126361_1_chiran-palace-prince-mukarram-jah-prime-minister| url-status = dead| newspaper = [[The Times of India]] | archive-date = 2011-08-11}}</ref> His two main palaces in Hyderabad, [[Chowmahalla Palace|Chowmahalla]] and [[Falaknuma Palace|Falaknuma]], have been restored and opened to the public, the former as a museum showcasing the era of the Nizams and the latter as a luxury hotel. The Taj Falaknuma Palace Hotel opened in February 2010, having been leased to the [[Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces|Taj Group]], after some ten years of renovations.<ref>{{Citation | title = Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad - Opening February 2010 | date = February 2010 | url = http://www.tajgetaways.com/palaces/falaknuma/falaknuma.html | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100322203715/http://www.tajgetaways.com/palaces/falaknuma/falaknuma.html | archivedate = 22 March 2010}}</ref>

Like his father, Mukarram was the richest man in India until the 1980s. However, in the 1990s he lost some assets to divorce settlements. His net worth is nevertheless estimated at $US1 billion.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,497496,00.html Natwest Bank account freeze]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5118720.stm Costliest divorce in India]</ref>

==Marriages and issue==
Mukarram Jah married five times. His first wife was a Turkish princess, [[Princess Esra|Esra Birgin]] (b. 1936), and they married in 1959.<ref name="Zubrzycki"/><ref>{{Cite web | last = Guruswamy | first = Mohan | title = Books: The Last Nizam by John Zubrzycki. Picador India, Delhi, 2006. | work = City of Hope: a symposium on Hyderabad and its syncretic culture | date = May 2008 | url = http://www.india-seminar.com/2008/585/585_books.htm | accessdate = 2008-12-30}}</ref> Jah left his Hyderabad palace for a [[sheep station]] in the [[Australian outback]] and divorced his wife, who did not want to move with him.<ref name="dalrymple">{{Citation | last = Dalrymple | first = William | author-link = William Dalrymple (historian) | title = The lost world | newspaper = Guardian | date = 2007-12-08 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/dec/08/weekend.williamdalrymple}}</ref> In 1979, he married a former [[air hostess]] and employee of the [[BBC]], Helen Simmons (b. 1949 – d. 1989);<ref name="timesofindia060321"/> she converted to Islam and changed her name to Aysha. After her death, he married [[Manolya Onur]] (b. 1954 – d. 2017), a former [[Miss Turkey]] in 1992, and divorced her after a five-year marriage in 1997.<ref name="dalrymple"/><ref name="timesofindia060321">{{Citation | title = Turkish Beauty Fights for Justice | newspaper = The Times of India | date = 2006-03-21 | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1457880,flstry-1.cms | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100120080731/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1457880,flstry-1.cms | archivedate = 20 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="timesofindia060319">{{Citation | last = Shrivastava | first = Namita A | title = Princess diaries | newspaper = The Times of India | date = 2006-03-19 | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1455717,prtpage-1.cms}}</ref>

He married Jameela Boularous (b. 1972), from Morocco, in 1992.<ref>{{Citation | title = Nizam lands in $7-lakh soup | newspaper = The Telegraph, Calcutta, India | date = 2006-03-24 | url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060324/asp/atleisure/story_6007307.asp}}</ref> In 1994, he married<ref>{{Citation | last = Leonard | first = Karen Isaksen | title = Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad | publisher = Stanford University Press | year = 2007 | page = 111 | isbn = 978-0-8047-5442-2}}</ref> Princess Ayesha Orchedi (b. 1959), who is Turkish.<ref>{{Citation | last = Parasher | first = Paritosh | title = Nizam's descendant faces unpaid wages charge in Aussie court | newspaper = Indo-Asian News Service | date = 2001-08-31 | url = http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/aug/31aus.htm}}</ref>

[[File:AsafJah8-Nanny Bombay-1933.jpeg|thumb|right|Nanny carrying the prince from board after arrival in Bombay, 1934]]
[[File:Prince Of Hyderabad.jpg|thumb|right|Mukarram Jah with his younger brother [[Muffakham Jah]]]]

===Sons and daughters===
By Esra Birgin, Mukarram Jah had one son and one daughter:
* [[Prince Azmet Jah|Walashan Nawab Sahibzada Mir Azmet Ali Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur]] (b. 1962), also known as Azmet Jah (heir apparent), married 1994 to Princess Begum Sahiba Zainab Naz Jah (née Zeynep Naz Guvendiren) and has one son, has worked as a cameraman.<ref name="dalrymple"/><ref name="thehindu">{{Citation | last = Farida | first = Syeda | title = I belong to a lot of countries | newspaper = The Hindu | date = 2005-02-10 | url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/02/10/stories/2005021001020100.htm | access-date = 30 December 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100306162714/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/02/10/stories/2005021001020100.htm | archive-date = 6 March 2010 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
**Murad Jah
* Sahibzadi Shehkyar Unisa Begum (b. 1964), unmarried and without issue<ref name="ancestry.com">{{Cite web | last = Soszynski | first = Henry | title = HH Walashan Nawab Mir BEREKET ALI KHAN Mukarram Jah | publisher = Ancestry.com | date = 2005-06-20 | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/turkey/i377.html | accessdate = 2008-12-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160423005341/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/turkey/i377.html | archive-date = 23 April 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

By Helen Simmons he had two sons:
* Walashan Nawab Sahibzada Mir Alexander Azam Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur (b. 1979)<ref name="ancestry.com"/>
* Walashan Nawab Sahibzada Mir Mohammod Umar Khan Siddiqi Bayafendi Bahadur (1984-2004) deceased due to drug overdose<ref name="ancestry.com"/>

By Manolya Onur he had a daughter:
* Sahebzadi Nilufer Unisa Begum (b. 1992)<ref name="timesofindia060321"/>

By Jameela Boularous he had a daughter:
* Sahebzadi Zairin Unisa Begum (b. 1994)

==Full style==

''[[His Exalted Highness]]'' Prince Rustam-i-Dauran, Arustu-i-Zaman, Wal Mamaluk, Asaf Jah VIII, Muzaffar ul-Mamalik, Nizam ul-Mulk, Nizam ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Barakat 'Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Sipah Salar, Fath Jang, [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] and [[Berar Province|Berar]].

;Military titles
Honorary [[Lieutenant-General]]

==Palaces ==
The palaces he owns
* [[Chowmahalla Palace]], Hyderabad.
* [[Falaknuma Palace]], Hyderabad.
* [[King Kothi Palace|Nazribagh Palace]], Hyderabad.
* [[Naukhanda palace|Naukhanda Palace]], Aurangabad.
* [[Chiraan Palace]], Banjarahills, Hyderabad.
* [[Purani Haveli]] Hyderabad. (Mukarram Jah Trust for education and Learning).

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Prince Mukarram Jah'''
|2= 2. [[Azam Jah]] (1907–1970)
|3= 3. [[Princess Durru Shehvar]] (1914–2006)
|4= 4. [[Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII]] (1886–1967)
|5= 5. Dulhan Pasha Begum Sahiba (1889–1955)
|6= 6. [[Abdülmecid II|Abdülmecid II, Caliph]] (1868–1944)
|7= 7. Atiya Mihisti (1892–1964)<ref>Harun Açba, ''Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924'' (2004) p.214-215</ref>
|8= 8. [[Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI]] (1866–1911)
|9= 9. Amat uz-Zahra un-nisa Begum Sahiba (d. 1929)
|10= 10. Nawab Mir Jahangir Ali Khan Bahadur, Jahangir Jang
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|12= 12. [[Abdülaziz|Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan]] (1830–1876)
|13= 13. [[Hayranıdil Kadınefendi]] (1846–1895)
|14= 14. Hacımaf Bey Akalsba
|15= 15. Safiye Hanım
|16= 16. [[Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V]] (1827–1869)
|17= 17. Allah Rakhi Begum
|18= 18. [[Salar Jung I|Mukhtar ul-Mulk, Shuja ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Tawab ‘Ali Khan, Salar Jung Bahadur]]
|19= 19. Preetamji Sahiba
|20= 20. Haidar ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Khushru Ali Khan Bahadur, Haidar Jang
|21= 21. Sahibzadi Rahat un-nisa Begum Sahiba (granddaughter of [[Nasir-ud-dawlah, Asaf Jah IV]])
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|24= 24. [[Mahmud II|Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan]] (1785–1839)
|25= 25. [[Sultana Pertevniyal|Valide Sultan Pertevniyal]] (1812–1883)
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==See also==
*[[Mir Najaf Ali Khan]] - cousin of Mukarram Jah
*[[Hyderabad State|Kingdom of Hyderabad]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071218083009/http://www.chowmahalla.com/htm/celebrities.htm Some recent photographs of the Nizam and the princely family]
* [http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/h/hyderabad.html Hyderabad princely state]
*{{YouTube|aBrnCbBZKqI|Rare colour film of accession ceremony of the 8th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1967}}

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>SUM1: Changing short description from "titular Nizam of Hyderabad" to "Titular Nizam of Hyderabad since 1967" (Shortdesc helper)

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