NIZA3I, the title of the sovereign of Hyderabad, derived from Nirainail-31ulk, who, alter the death of Anrungzebe, obtained pos• season of the Mohammedan conquests in the Deccan, his name being assumed as a title by Ids successors In the sovereignty. After reigning 31 years, Niram-ul 31nik died at a very advanced age, in 174S. Ile was succeeded by his second son Narisir Jung, who was assassinated in 1750. His grandson 3luzuffer Jung was then placed on the throne, and also aawsinated in the year following. The third son of Nizam ul.Mulk, Salabat Jung, then reigned until 1703, when he was put to death by hi, brother Nixam Ali, who thereupon took tho reins of government, and hold thorn till his death in 1803. His successor, Sekundar Jah, died in 1828, and was succeeded by Nazir-iid-Doulat, who died May 18, 1857. The present nizam is named Ahab'''. Doubt. Under this prince the misgovernment attained so groat a height, and the debt to the British government became so large, that a territorial cession was effected ; the revenue of the sequestrated districts to be applied to the reduction of the debt and the main tenance of the military contingents The nizam is one of the native sovereigns with whom the East India Company made subsidiary treaties, and to which the British govern ment by the cession of the Company's political power succeeded. The
chief provisions contained in these treaties are-1st, protection by the British government against all enemies, foreign or domestic : 2nd, mutual co-operation in the event of hostilities with other powers ; 3rd, the maintaining of a British force for the protection of the native state ; 4th, the reception of a British resident, by whose counsel the native government is bound to abide as regards all public affairs, internal and external ; and 5th, the abandonment on the part of the native prince of all political intercourse with other powers, except through the medium of the British government. Under this system the native princes are little more than viceroys, who administer the government according to the views of their superior ; and in fact the British residents appointed under subsidiary treaties are not so much ambassadors as they are ministers. Connected closely with the pre sidency of Bombay, Hyderabad was not engaged in the mutiny of the native Indian troops in 1857-3, and consequently its political position remained unchanged.