Jewels of the Nizams of Hyderabad

After the annexation of their kingdom by Union of India, the Nizam and his heirs were barred by the Indian government from taking the collection, claiming that it was a national treasure.

In 1995, the Indian government bought the jewels for ₹218 crore (about US$70 million) many years after the death of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, in 1967.

She went to the Hyderabad City Civil Court and notified that neither all the trustees had agreed for the sale, nor the tender was publicised sufficiently at an international level so that the heirs would get the right price of the jewels.

Fatima Fouzia, mother of great grandson of Nizam Himayat Ali Mirza, had filed a petition to prevent the jewels from being sold to private parties.

Himayat Ali Mirza has requested the central government to bring these coins, which were made in the Arabic script should be brought back to Hyderabad.