Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II

Mir Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (7 March 1734 – 6 August 1803) was Nizam of Hyderabad from 8 July 1762 to 1803, the fourth son of the state's founder Asaf Jah I and Umda Begum ¹.

He had made his name as the Deccan's leading commander against the Marathas before he seized Bidar, arrested his brother Salabat Jung and was confirmed as Subedar of the Deccan by the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II ¹. His long reign was filled with war against the Maratha Peshwas — defeat at Kharda in 1795 cost him Daulatabad, Aurangabad and Sholapur and a heavy indemnity — and he kept a French-officered corps under Monsieur Raymond as his military mainstay ¹. Seeing Tipu Sultan's fall coming, he entered a subsidiary alliance with the British East India Company in 1798, and Hyderabad, a state comparable to the United Kingdom in area and population, became a princely state within the British Raj ¹. He died at Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad, aged 69, on 6 August 1803 ^{1 2}.

His faith is recorded as unknown. No source read names a school or order for the man himself — the English article's infobox has no religion field, the Arabic and Urdu articles are silent on his madhhab, and Wikidata gives Islam alone ^{1 3}. The Asaf Jahi house's Sunni character is dynastic context, which never counts as personal attestation.

The English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata agree at day precision on both his birth (7 March 1734, paired in the Urdu article with 1 Shawwal 1146 AH) and his death (6 August 1803) ^{1 4 3}. No source read supports the birth year 1727 sometimes met in older lists. His edges to his father Asaf Jah I and to Hyderabad stand in this record.