Nawab Moin Nawaz Jung was the Minister for Finance and External Affairs of the

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state in the Deccan region of south-central India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and the ...

, under the Nizam

Osman Ali Khan Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (5 or 6 April 1886 – 24 February 1967) was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and rule ...

's reign.

Family

Moin Nawaz Jung was the brother-in-law of Mir Laik Ali, who served as the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad.

Career

Prior to the

Partition of India The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Paki ...

, Moin Nawaz Jung was a member of the Nizam's Government. He continued in various positions until the

Operation Polo The Annexation of Hyderabad (code-named Operation Polo) was a military operation launched in September 1948 that resulted in the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad by India, which was dubbed a "police action". At the time of part ...

and the accession of Hyderabad to India. * In 1946, he was the Political Secretary and was appointed to head the negotiations for political reforms in the State, with the goal of finding a formula acceptable to both the Hindus of Hyderabad State Congress (''Congress'') and the Muslims of Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (''Ittehad''). The reforms were eventually announced on 27 July 1946. * In 1947, he was the minister for Police and Information. After the

Standstill Agreement The term standstill agreement refers to various forms of agreement which may be entered into in order to delay action which might otherwise take place. Examples A standstill agreement may be used as a form of defence to a hostile takeover, when a ...

was negotiated by the Nizam's delegation with the Government of India, the leader of the ''Ittehad'',

Kasim Razvi Syed Muhammad Qasim Razvi (17 July 1902 – 15 January 1970) was a politician in the princely state of Hyderabad. He was the president of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party from December 1946 until the state's Annexation in 1948. He was als ...

, led a coup, blocking the delegation from the leaving the state. Subsequently, the Nizam repudiated the agreement and refused to sign it under pressure from Ittehad. Moin Nawaz Jung was among the minority of members in the Executive Council who opposed the standstill agreement. * Following the coup, the Nizam sent a new delegation on 31 October 1947, in which Moin Nawaz Jung was included. Jung pleaded for the negotiations restart from the original proposal made by the state, which was "indignantly refused" by Delhi. * On 28 November 1947, the Nizam appointed Mir Laik Ali as the new prime minister of the state. Laik Ali is said to have been inexperienced in administration as well as politics. Moin Nawaz Jung exerted considerable influence on him as well as the affairs of the state. Moin Nawaz Jung served as the minister for Finance and Externational Affairs in Laik Ali's cabinet. * On 4 September 1948, with India's

police action In security studies and international relations, a police action is a military action undertaken without a formal declaration of war. In the 21st century, the term has been largely supplanted by " counter-insurgency". Since World War II, formal ...

looming, the Nizam's government decided to send a delegation to the

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at Lake Success, headed by Moin Nawaz Jung, for settling the status of the Hyderabad State. The

Banknotes of Hyderabad The Hyderabadi Rupee (better known as "Osmania Sicca") was the currency of the Hyderabad State from 1918 to 1959. It co-existed with the Indian rupee from 1950. Like the Indian rupee, it was divided into 16 annas, each of 12 pai. Coins were iss ...

had his signature during 1947-48. The Nizam had entrusted to him the £1million transfer to the UK Bank was his finance minister Moin Nawaz Jung.

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