Princess Durrushehvar

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Princess Durrushehvar

  • Princess Durrushehvar was born on 26 January 1914 in Turkey.
  • Her father, Abdulmajid II, was the last Khalifa of Turkey, and her mother was Mehisti Hanım.
  • In November 1931, she married Azam Jah Bahadur, the eldest son of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad.
  • Her eldest son, Nawab Mir Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah Bahadur, was born on 6 October 1934. He is the present titular Nizam of Hyderabad.
  • Princess Durrushehvar was fluent in French, Turkish, English, and Urdu.
  • After arriving in Hyderabad, she became a popular public figure.
  • She inaugurated the Osmania General Hospital and established the Durru Shehvar Children’s & General Hospital in Hyderabad.
  • She became the first woman to inaugurate an airport when she inaugurated Hyderabad airport in the 1940s (now known as Rajiv Gandhi International Airport).
  • She believed in empowering women through education.
  • In 1939, she established the famous Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
  • Her last public appearance in Hyderabad was in 2000 at the opening ceremony of the Nizam’s Silver Jubilee Museum.
  • She passed away on 7 February 2006.
Princess DurruShehvar with her family

Princess DurruShehvar with her husband, Azam Jah, and children Mukarram Jah and Muffakham Jah

DurruShehvar Hospital

Princess Durru Shehvar Children’s & General Hospital