Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State (), also referred to as the Nizamate of Hyderabad, was a former princely state in the Deccan region of south-central India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and the Marathwada region of Maharashtra in India. The state was ruled from 1724 to 1948 by the Nizam, who was initially a viceroy of the Mughal Empire in the Deccan. It had also become a protectorate under the Maratha Empire, until the empire's fall in 1818. Hyderabad gradually became the first princely state to come under British paramountcy signing a subsidiary alliance agreement. At the time of the British Indian Empire in 1901.