HYDERABAD. H. H. Nawab Azam Jah, Prince of Berar in cavalry uniform

A waist length portrait of the Prince of Berar wearing cavalry service dress with turban and sword of the British 1887 honeysuckle hilt pattern. The photograph is in good condition, measuring 5½ x 3½ ins. There are old brown paper hinges on the verso where it has been tipped to an old album leaf. It probably dates from the late 1930s or early 1940s.       jan12/3

H. H. Nawab Azam Jah, Prince of Berar  [1907-1970] was the son of the Nizam of Hyderabad and given the courtesy title of Prince of Berar in 1936. Berar was a district of Hyderabad State which was leased to the British.