Some of the famous freedom fighters include Bhikaji Cama, Dr. Annie Besant, Pritilata Waddedar, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Aruna Asaf Ali, Sucheta Kriplani and Kasturba Gandhi.

Mughal king Muhammad Shah appointed a Turani noble Asaf Jah I as the wazir of Mughal Empire in 1722, but in 1724 he left for the Deccan to start his own kingdom and took the title Nizam-ul-Mulk .. Marathwada become a part of Nizam ’ s domain, which later came to be known as the princely state of Hyderabad outside but under the suzerainty of British India.

In the year 1594 Jahangir's was dispatched by his father the Mughal Emperor Akbar, alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and Abu ' l-Fazl ibn Mubarak to defeat the renegade Vir Singh Deo of Bandela and capture the city of Orchha, which was considered the center of the revolt.

Arjumand was Asaf Khan's daughter and her marriage to Prince Khurram consolidated Nur Jahan and Asaf Khan's positions at court.

The death of the Asaf Jah I, the Nizam of Hyderabad, in 1748 sparked a struggle to succeed him that is known as the Second Carnatic War, which was also furthered by the expansionist interests of French Governor-General Dupleix.

In 2009 an Israeli character was introduced to the show – Avi Bar Lev ( Asaf B. Goldfrid ).

Nizam (), a shortened version of Nizam-ul-Mulk (), meaning Administrator of the Realm, was the title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad state, India, since 1719, belonging to the Asaf Jah dynasty.

The dynasty was founded by Mir Qamar-ud-Din Siddiqi, a viceroy of the Deccan under the Mughal emperors from 1713 to 1721 and who intermittently ruled under the title Asaf Jah in 1724, and After Aurangzeb's death in 1707, the Mogul empire crumbled and the viceroy in Hyderabad, the young Asaf Jah, declared himself independent.

He was followed by Ali Khan Asaf Jah II who added the territories of Aurangabad, Bidar and Sholapur in various battles with the Marathas.

Operation Assaf (, Mivtza Asaf ) was an Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) operation against the Egyptian Army between December 5 – December 7, 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan Siddiqi ( 20 August 1671 – 1 June 1748 ) was a Mughal nobleman the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty.

Asaf Jah or the equal to Asaf, the Grand Vizier in the court of King Solomon, was the highest title that could be awarded to a subject of the Mughal Empire.

Arjumand Banu Begum was born in Agra into a family of Persian nobility, as a daughter of Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, making her a niece ( and later daughter-in-law ) of Empress Nur Jehan, the wife of the emperor Jahangir.

Arjumand Banu Begum was born in Agra into a family of Persian nobility, as a daughter of Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, making her a niece ( and later daughter-in-law ) of Empress Nur Jehan, the wife of the emperor Jahangir.

It was ceded by Ali Khan Asaf Jah II, Nizam of Hyderabad to Maratha Empire with Daulatabad and Sholapur after Battle of Kharda in 1795 with paying indemnity of 30 million rupees.

Due to the arrest of major leaders, a young and till then relatively unknown Aruna Asaf Ali presided over the AICC session on August 9 and hoisted the flag ; later the Congress party was banned.

Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asaf Jah I | Chin Qilich Khan was instated as the Grand Vizier of the Mughal Empire on 21 February 1722.

He eventually settled in Kashmir where he was given the name Yuz Asaf ( meaning “ Leader of the Healed ”/" Son of Joseph ").

It is said that, during the Mughal Governorship between Qutb Shahi and Asaf Jahi rule, the south western minaret " fell to pieces " after being struck by lightning and " was forthwith repaired " at a cost of Rs 60, 000.

The State of Hyderabad, located over most of the Deccan Plateau in southern India, was established in 1724 by Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah after the collapse of the Mughal Indian Empire.

Nizam, a shortened from Nizam-ul-Mulk, meaning Administrator of the Realm, was the title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad State, since 1724, belonging to the Asaf Jah dynasty.

The dynasty was founded by Mir Qamar-ud-Din Siddiqi, a viceroy of the Deccan under the Mughal emperors from 1713 to 1721 and he intermittently ruled under the title Asaf Jah in 1724, and after Aurangzeb's death in 1707, the Mughal Empire crumbled and the viceroy in Hyderabad, the young Asaf Jah, declared himself independent.

Left with only two mules, Ghias Beg, his expectant wife, their children, Muhammad Sharif, Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, and one daughter, took turns riding on the backs of the animals.

In 1946, during Jamia ’ s silver jubilee celebration, one could see the crisis that India had to face in the following year: Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Liaquat Ali Khan were on one side of Dr. Zakir Husain, the vice chancellor, on the dias ; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Asaf Ali and Sir Rajagopalachari were on the other side.

The dominant rulers on the Coromandel Coast were the Nizam of Hyderabad, Asaf Jah I, and the Nawab of the Carnatic, Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan.

His eldest son, Captain Asaf Ramon, died on September 13, 2009, aged 21, during a routine training flight while piloting his F-16A, 3 months after graduating from the IAF flight school as the top cadet in his class.

At 22: 43 on Thursday night, May 24, 2001 during the wedding of Keren and Asaf Dror, a large portion of the third floor of the four-story building collapsed.

Emperor Farrukhsiyar on his balcony, ca 1715-1719, In the year 1718, Farrukhsiyar began to amass a Mughal Army of 70, 000 in Delhi he had invited Asaf Jah I from Moradabad and Sarbuland Khan from Bihar, they however declined to fight against the Sayyid Brothers.

The treaty was signed on February 21, 1828 by Abbas Mirza, the crown prince, and Allah-Yar Khan Asaf al-Daula, chancellor of Fath Ali Shah, on behalf of Persia, and General Ivan Paskievich representing Imperial Russia.

He had published a critical essay on the modern mystical poet Asaf Halet Çelebi, collected works of the forgotten poet Halit Asım, and translated the poetry of Osip Mandelstam and C. P. Cavafy into Turkish.

In addition, previously unorganized Croats of the Muslim faith, with the arrival of eminent physician Asaf Durakovic founded the Croatian Islamic Centre on June 23, 1973 in Etobicoke ( 75 Birmingham Street, Etobicoke, ON M8V 2C3 ), helped by the Croatian Catholic community .. An old Catholic school was bought for 75, 000 CAD and readjusted into masjid.

Atzmon founded the Orient House Ensemble band in London in 2000 with Asaf Sirkis on drums, Frank Harrison on piano and Oli Hayhurst on bass.

John Clerk was appointed tutor to him and scholars well versed in Persian, Arabic and Urdu were also engaged as tutors. The personality and noble life of Sir Salar Jung had a great influence on Asaf Jah VI.

In 1930 the choreographers Asaf Messerer and Igor Moiseyev mounted a new version La Fille mal gardée for the Bolshoi Ballet, which was based on the 1903 edition by Gorsky.

He was deposed by his brother, Asaf Jah II, on July 8, 1762 and ordered held in Bidar Fort prison where he was killed on September 16, 1763.

In 1928, he married Aruna Ganguli, a marriage that raised eyebrows on the grounds of religion ( Asaf Ali was a Muslim while Aruna was a Hindu ) and age difference ( Aruna was 22 years junior to him ).

Aruna Asaf Ali was born as Aruna Ganguly on July 16, 1908 at Kalka, Punjab, British India, but now in the state of Haryana into a Bengali Brahmo family.

She met Asaf Ali, a leader in the Congress party at Allahabad and married him in 1928, despite parental opposition on grounds of religion ( she was a Brahmo while he was a Muslim ) and age ( a difference of more than 20 years ).

Rani Durgwati started negotiations with Akbar for a peaceful settlement and when those negotiation failed, she retailted by making forays against Bhilsa, Asaf Khan marched against Gondwana.

Farrukhsiyar was also a very manipulative he would spend most of his reign trying to bribe notable Mughal servicemen to overthrow the Syed Brothers, among those to fall victims to such schemes was the courageous Daud Khan Panni, Asaf Jah I refused to involve in any internal conflict and was disfavored by Farrukhsiyar.

Though Asaf Jah-II ruled for over 50 years, Nizam's dominions lost considerable power and more importantly, land to both the British and the French due to infighting and debts owed to the foreign powers.

The Asaf Jah dynasty had only seven rulers ; however there was a period of 13 years after the rule of the first Nizam when three of his sons ( Nasir Jung, Muzafar Jung and Salabath Jung ) ruled.

This district, like the other districts of Telangana, passed under the Asaf Jahis and remained under them for a period of nearly two hundred and twenty five years.

The Gond queen Durgavati ruled for fifteen years, before she lost her life in a battle with Mughal emperor Akbar's general Asaf Khan in 1564.

He was the only son of Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V. When his father died he was two years and seven months old, and thus became the 9th Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty in 1869.