My Life : Autobiography of Nawab Server-ul-Mulk

Translated into English by his son Nawab Jivan Yar Jung Bahadur, Bar-at-Law

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Nawab Sarwar-ul-Mulk (Server-ul-Mulk) Bahadur was born in 1848 as Agha Mirza Beg Khan, nine years before the 1857 War of Independence (“Mutiny”) which brought an end to Mughal rule in India, and gave total control to the British to rule over the sub-continent for the next 90 years. He was related through clanship and marriage with the family of the Mughal emperors.

This autobiography covers the period up to 1897, and gives a very interesting perspective of the political and social history of Delhi and Hyderabad.

His description of the British savagery which led to massacre of the Muslim nobles in Delhi in 1857 is worth noting, even though he has try to temper it down with softer words. Many of his own family members were martyred on that fateful day through sheer murder by British soldiers.

The Nawab moved to Hyderabad and served tne sixth Nizam Mahbub Ali Khanas his most trusted Secretary. He had also a tutor of the same Nizam .