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Paigah is a family in the senior aristocracy of Hyderabad State. Under the British Raj they tended to be richer than the average Indian Nawab/Maharajah, and each maintained his own court, his own extraordinary palaces, and his own three or four thousand-strong private army. Bashir Bagh Palace belonged to Sir Asman Jah, a Paigah noble and Prime Minister of Hyderabad (1887–1893). Sir Vicar-ul-Umra, the Paigah noble and the prime minister of Hyderabad state (1893 to 1901), in 1897-98 he presented Falaknuma palace, to the sixth Nizam, Mir Mahbub Ali Khan as Nazar (offering). ==List of Paigahs of Hyderabad== *Sir Asman Jah *Sir Vicar-ul-Umra *Sir Khurshid Jah Paigah or the Shums ul Umra family was the Premier nobility of the Hyderabad State. They were richer and had larger estates than the average Indian Nawab/Maharajah, they maintained their own court, their own extraordinary palaces, and their own twelve-thousand-strong private army. Paigah was often referred to as a State within a State comprising 23 taluks, and 1,273 villages and covering an area of 4,134 square miles with a population of 774,411 (per 1901 census). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paigah family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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