Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah Asaf Jah VIII, Beyefendi (b. 6 October 1933 at the Hilafet Palace, Nice

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, France

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), less formally known as Mukarram Jah, has been the titular

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 Nizam of Hyderabad

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 since the death of his grandfather in 1967. His full official regnal title is His Exalted Highness Rustam-i-Dauran, Arustu-i-Zaman, Wal Mamaluk, Asaf Jah VIII, Muzaffar ul-Mamaluk, Nizam ul-Mulk, Nizam ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Barakat ’Ali Khan Bahadur, Sipah Salar, Fatah Jang, Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, Honorable Lieutenant-General.
Mukarram Jah was born to Azam Jah

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Azam Jah, Damat Walashan Sahebzada Nawab Sir Mir Himayat Ali Khan Bahadur Bey Effendi was the eldest son of the seventh and last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan Asif Jah VII; In 1936 he was given the courtesy title of Prince of Berar, a territory of the Nizam then leased in perpetuity to...

 and Durru Shehvar and the grandson of Osman Ali Khan, the last reigning Nizam of Hyderabad state, and also the grandson of the last Ottoman Caliph, His Imperial Majesty Caliph ‘Abdu’l-Mijid II

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Jah was educated at The Doon School

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 and then in England

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 at Harrow School

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, Cambridge, the London School of Economics

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 and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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Mukarram Jah enjoyed a close relationship with India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who reportedly wanted him to become his personal envoy or the country's ambassador, particularly to the Muslim countries.
His two main palaces in Hyderabad - Chowmahalla and Falaknuma - have recently been restored and are accessible to the public, the former as a museum highlighting the Nizam era and the latter opening as a luxury hotel in February 2010 (under lease to the Taj Group).

Like his father, Mukarram was the richest man in India till the Eighties.