Mukarram Jah, Nizam of Hyderabad, to be laid to rest with ancestors at Mecca Masjid

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government has said that the funeral of Mukarram Jah, the titular Nizam VIII, will be held with state honours. Mukkaram Jah’s body will arrive at Chowmahalla palace on Tuesday evening.
The public will be allowed to pay their last respects from 8am on Wednesday. Funeral prayers and burial will be held at Mecca Masjid at 5pm on Wednesday.
He will be laid to rest at the Asaf Jahi ancestral tombs attached to the historic Mecca Masjid. All the Nizams of Hyderabad except the first and the seventh are buried there. While the Nizam I was buried near Aurangabad, Nizam VII was buried at Masjid-e-Judi near King Kothi in the city. Nizam VII had willed that he be buried beside the grave of his mother at Masjid-e-Judi.
In a statement, chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao condoled the death of Mukarram Jah and conveyed his sympathies to the family. “In recognition of Mukarram Jah’s social services in the fields of education and medicine for the poor as the successor of the Nizam, the chief minister directed chief secretary Santhi Kumari to conduct Jah’s last rites with the highest state honours,” the statement said.