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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Dürrüşehvar Sultan
| full name = {{langx|tr|Hatice Hayriye Ayşe Dürrüşehvar Sultan|italic=no}}<br />{{langx|ota|خدیجه خیریه عائشه درشهوار سلطان}}
| title = Princess of [[Berar Division|Berar]] and Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire
| image = Cecil Beaton Photographs- Political and Military Personalities; Durri Shehvar, Princess IB783.jpg
| caption = Dürrüşehvar Sultan by [[Cecil Beaton]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|1|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Çamlıca Palace, [[Üsküdar]], [[Istanbul|Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]] <br /> (present day [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|2|7|1914|1|26|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]], England
| burial_place = [[Brookwood Cemetery]]
| father = [[Abdulmejid II]]
| mother = [[Mehisti Hanım]]
| house = [[Ottoman dynasty|Ottoman]] (by birth)<br />[[Asaf Jahi dynasty|Asaf Jahi]] (by marriage)
| house-type = Dynasty
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Azam Jah]]|1931|1954|end=divorced|}}
| issue = {{unbulleted list|[[Mukarram Jah]]|[[Muffakham Jah]]|}}
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
}}

'''Hatice Hayriye Ayşe Dürrüşehvar Sultan''' ({{langx|ota|خدیجه خیریه عائشه درشهوار سلطان}}; 26 January 1914 – 7 February 2006), after marriage named '''Durru Shehvar Durdana Begum Sahiba, Princess of Berar''';<ref>{{cite book|title=The Prescriber|year=1946|page=62}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Feudatory and zemindari India|year=1946|page=241}}</ref><ref name="Sitwell1953">{{cite book|author=Sacheverell Sitwell|title=Truffle Hunt with Sacheverell Sitwell|year=1953|publisher=Hale|page=86}}</ref> was an Ottoman princess by birth and Hyderabad princess by marriage. She was the only daughter of the last caliph [[Abdulmejid II]], who was the last [[Line of succession to the former Ottoman throne|heir apparent]] to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Ottoman dynasty|Imperial throne]] and the last [[List of caliphs#Ottoman Caliphate (1517–1924)|Caliph]] of the [[Ottoman Caliphate]].

==Early life==
[[File:Rukiye Sabiha Sultan wedding.jpg|thumb|right|Dürrüşehvar (second from left) at the wedding of [[Sabiha Sultan]], April 1920]]
[[File:Princess Durru Shehvar.jpg|thumbnail|right|Dürrüşehvar at nine and a half years old, 1923]]
Dürrüşehvar Sultan was born on 26 January 1914 at the Çamlıca Palace<ref name="adra">{{cite book|first=Jamil|last=Adra|title=Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/GenealogyOfTheImperialOttomanFamily2005|year=2005|pages=[https://archive.org/details/GenealogyOfTheImperialOttomanFamily2005/page/n24 37-38]}}</ref> in [[Üsküdar]], then part of [[Istanbul|İstanbul]], when the [[Ottoman Caliphate]] was passing through its last phase. Her father was the future Caliph [[Abdulmejid II]], son of Sultan [[Abdulaziz]] and [[Hayranidil Kadın]]. Her mother was [[Mehisti Hanım]], daughter of Hacımaf Akalsba and Safiye Hanım.<ref>{{cite thesis|first=Lâle|last=Uçan|title=Son Halife Abdülmecid Efendi'nin Hayatı - Şehzâlik, Veliahtlık ve Halifelik Yılları |url=http://nek.istanbul.edu.tr:4444/ekos/TEZ/60731.pdf |publisher=Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences |type=PhD Thesis |year=2019 |page=258}}</ref> She had a half-brother, [[Şehzade Ömer Faruk]], from her father's first consort.<ref name="adra"/>

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Dürrüşehvar and her family settled in [[Nice]], [[France]]. The British Red Crescent Society, friendly with the deposed ruler, appealed to Muslim rulers around the world to come to the aid of the impoverished Caliph. Persuaded by [[Mawlānā|Maulana]] [[Shaukat Ali (politician)|Shaukat Ali]] and his brother, Maulana [[Mohammad Ali Jauhar]], [[Mir Osman Ali Khan|Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII]] the last [[Nizam of Hyderabad|Nizam of the Hyderabad State]] of [[India]] decided to send a life-time monthly pension of three hundred pounds to the deposed Caliph, and allowances to several individuals in the family.<ref name="Seshan 2018">{{cite web | last=Seshan | first=K S S | title=The progressive princess of Hyderabad | website=The Hindu | date=2018-10-30 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/princess-durru-shehvar-progressive-princess-of-hyderabad/article25368539.ece | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref>

==Marriage==
As a teenager, Dürrüşehvar's beauty attracted many suitors, despite belonging to a fallen dynasty. She was sought by the [[Reza Shah Pahlavi|Shah of Persia]] and [[King Fuad I]] of Egypt as a bride for their respective heirs, [[Mohammed Reza Pahlavi]] and [[Farouk I of Egypt|Farouk]], and by Prince [[Azam Jah]] (1907–1970), the eldest son and heir of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan.<ref name="Khan 2020">{{cite web | last=Khan | first=Elisabeth | title=Ottoman Princesses in India (3). Princess Durru Shehvar, daughter of the… | website=Medium | date=2020-04-16 | url=https://medium.com/@khan.elisabeth/ottoman-princesses-in-india-3-4ecba7f12fa4 | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref> In 1930,<ref name="oztuna">{{cite book|author=Yılmaz Öztuna|title=II. Abdülhamîd: zamânı ve şahsiyeti|publisher=Kubbealti Publishing|year=2008
|pages=238–39|isbn=978-97564-446-27}}</ref> [[Şehzade Mehmed Abid]], son of Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] and [[Saliha Naciye Hanım]] also asked her hand in marriage. However, her father refused, on the grounds of Dürrüşehvar being under age, but in reality Abdülmecid had already decided to marry her off to the eldest son of the Nizam.<ref name="ekinci">{{cite web|title=Saraydan Seyyar Satıcılîğa: Şehzâde Âbid Efendi|url=http://www.ekrembugraekinci.com/article/?ID=460|website=www.erkembugraekinci.com|date=19 June 2013|access-date=26 March 2021}}</ref>

In 1931, her father arranged her marriage to [[Azam Jah]], elder son and heir to [[Mir Osman Ali Khan]] (7th Nizam of [[Hyderabad Deccan]]).{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=125}} However, fifty thousand pounds in ''[[mahr]]'' was demanded for her, which the Nizam considered too much. Upon the intervention of Shaukat Ali, he proposed to offer, for the same ''mahr'', also the hand of [[Mahpeyker Hanımsultan]] to the Nizam's younger son [[Moazzam Jah]]. The Nizam readily agreed and sent his two sons to France to be married. However, when they arrived in France, [[Şehzade Osman Fuad]], his wife Kerime Hanim and his half-sister [[Adile Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Selaheddin)|Adile Sultan]] arranged for Moazzam to meet [[Nilufer Hanımsultan|Nilüfer Hanımsultan]], Adile's daughter. Nilüfer was so beautiful that Moazzam fell in love with her at first sight, and immediately decided to break off his engagement to Mahpeyker to marry her instead.<ref name="Seshan 2018"/>

A day before the wedding, the princes arrived in Nice from London by express train,{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=124}} and stayed at the [[Hotel Negresco]].{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=125}} On 12 November 1931, aged seventeen, Dürrüşehvar married [[Azam Jah]], at Villa Carabacel in Nice. The Nizam's younger son was married to Dürrüşehvar's cousin Nilüfer.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=123}} The marriage was performed by Damad Mehmed Şerif Pasha, husband of Abdulmejid's half-sister [[Emine Sultan (daughter of Abdulaziz)|Emine Sultan]].{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=126}} The local newspapers were full of photographs of the Indian princes when they arrived for the weddings, with headlines like ''A Thousand and One Nights'' and ''A Muslim Wedding''.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=123}} On that occasion, Dürrüşehvar received a diamond tiara as a gift from her aunt [[Nazime Sultan]]. After the wedding the princes took their brides and the entourage back to the hotel where they had stayed.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=126}} After the religious ceremony, the newly weds went to the British consulate to complete their civil marriage, and validate their prenuptial agreement, according to which, in the event of divorce or death of the husband, Dürrüşehvar would receive two hundred thousand dollars in compensation.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|pp=126–127}}
[[File:Caliph Abdulmecid II of the Ottoman Empire.jpg|thumb|right|Dürrüşehvar with her father and husband, 1931]]
Following the festivities in Nice, the princesses and their husbands set sail from Venice on 12 December 1931<ref name="Seshan 2018"/> to her father-in-law's court in [[Hyderabad Deccan|Hyderabad, India]].{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=126}} Nilufer and Dürrüşehvar's mothers also accompanied them, with a French midwife.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=123}} They boarded the ocean liner ''Pilsna''. [[Mahatma Gandhi]] had boarded the ship after attending the [[Round Table Conferences (India)#Second Round Table Conference (September 1931 – December 1931)|Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931]], and was travelling back to India. It is reported that he met with the princesses.<ref>{{cite web | last=Garari | first=Kaniza | title=Did Mahatma Gandhi meet Princess Niloufer on ship? Panel looks for clues | website=Deccan Chronicle | date=2019-09-30 | url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/300919/did-mahatma-gandhi-meet-princess-niloufer-on-ship-panel-looks-for-clu.html | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Garari | first=Kaniza | title=Hyderabad: Mahatma Gandhi did meet Niloufer, Durrushehvar on ship | website=Deccan Chronicle | date=2019-10-01 | url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/011019/hyderabad-mahatma-gandhi-did-meet-niloufer-durrushehvar-on-ship.html | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Acharya | first=Arvind | title=Revealed: Mahatma Gandhi had big impact on Princess Niloufer | website=Deccan Chronicle | date=2016-01-17 | url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/current-affairs/170116/revealed-mahatma-gandhi-had-big-impact-on-princess-niloufer.html | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref> On the way, they were taught how to wear sarees, and the expected etiquette in the presence of the Nizam. After their landing in Bombay, they boarded the private train of the Nizam.<ref name="The Siasat Daily - Archive 2017">{{cite web | title=A short biography of Princess Niloufer - The Siasat Daily | website=The Siasat Daily - Archive | date=2017-01-03 | url=https://archive.siasat.com/news/princess-niloufer-hyderabad-1100759/ | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref> After they reached Hyderabad, a banquet was held at the [[Chowmahalla Palace]] on 4 January 1932.<ref name="Khan 2019">{{cite web | last=Khan | first=Ali | title=Social landscape of Hyderabad changed by the entry of Princesses | website=The Siasat Daily | date=2019-10-09 | url=https://www.siasat.com/social-landscape-hyderabad-changed-entry-princesses-1644516/ | access-date=2021-02-20}}</ref> They then settled down in their respective homes. Dürrüşehvar and Azam Jah settled down in [[Bella Vista, Hyderabad]].<ref name="Nanisetti 2019">{{cite web | last=Nanisetti | first=Serish | title=Academic Staff College of India (ASCI) in Hyderabad was cocooned in luxury a century ago, as Bella Vista palace | website=The Hindu | date=2019-05-01 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/academic-staff-college-of-india-asci-in-hyderabad-was-cocooned-in-luxury-a-century-ago-as-bella-vista-palace/article27001463.ece | access-date=2021-02-20}}</ref>

She received the title of Durdana Begum from the Nizam,<ref>{{cite book|title=All-India Trade Directory and Who's who|year=1942|page=255}}</ref> held the title of Her Highness The [[Prince of Berar|Princess of Berar]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Theo La Touche|title=India's Premier Ruling Prince: A Rapid Sketch of the Man and His Work|year=1946|publisher=Thacker|pages=52, 66}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Mason|title=A Shaft of Sunlight: Memories of a Varied Life|year=1978|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|isbn=978-0-233-96955-8|page=203}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=R. Swarupa Rani|title=Women's Associations in Telangana|year=2003|publisher=Booklinks Corporation|isbn=978-81-85194-71-4|page=58}}</ref> She was taller than Azam Jah, and the Nizam thought that was a great joke. He regularly used to point out the difference in their height at parties.<ref name="Khan 2020"/> On 6 October 1933, she gave birth to her elder son, [[Mukarram Jah]], the future Nizam of Hyderabad. He was followed by [[Muffakham Jah]], born on 27 February 1939.<ref name="The Siasat Daily - Archive 2019">{{cite web | title=Tribute to eldest daughter-in-law of Nizam VII Princess Durru Shehvar | website=The Siasat Daily - Archive | date=2019-01-26 | url=https://archive.siasat.com/news/photos-tribute-eldest-daughter-law-nizam-vii-princess-durru-shehvar-1460373/ | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref> She knew of her husband's numerous concubines but carried herself regally. However, the differences between the two of them eventually led to their marriage falling apart around 1954,<ref name="Khan 2020"/> and after the divorce, Dürrüşehvar stayed in Hyderabad for some years, then moved to London. She conserved her title of "[[Prince of Berar|Princess of Berar]]". Her mother, who was with her in India during all her marriage, returned by her husband.<ref name="Khan 2020"/><ref name="Seshan 2018"/>

==Public life==
[[File:AsafJahVIII-Dürrühshehvar 1stOfficialPic 1934.jpeg|thumb|right|Dürrüşehvar with her son [[Mukarram Jah]], 1934]]
[[File:Turkish aristocrats Durrushehvar and Abdulmejid II.jpg|thumb|right|Dürrüşehvar and [[Abdulmejid II]]]]
A highly respected and well-educated lady, the princess was fluent in [[French language|French]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[English language|English]] and also [[Urdu]].<ref name="Khan 2020"/> She was also a painter and a poet.<ref>{{cite web | title=Princess Dürrühsehvar, Princess of Berar; Caliph Abdulmecid Khan II of Turkey; Nawab Azam Jah, Prince of Berar | website=Portrait | date= | url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw57668/Princess-Drrhsehvar-Princess-of-Berar-Caliph-Abdulmecid-Khan-II-of-Turkey-Nawab-Azam-Jah-Prince-of-Berar | access-date=2021-03-10}}</ref> She established a junior college for girls in her name in Yakutpura, Bagh-e-jahan Ara, Hyderabad,<ref name="Seshan 2018"/> and the [[Osmania General Hospital]].<ref name="Umar">{{cite web | last=Ashraf | first=Md Umar | title=Princess Durru Shehvar :- A Turkish princes married to an Indian prince. | website=Heritage Times | date=2018-12-21 | url=https://heritagetimes.in/princess-durru-shehvar-a-turkish-princes-married-to-an-indian-prince/ | access-date=2021-02-20}}</ref> On 4 November 1936,<ref name="India Today 2013">{{cite web | title=Display of Asaf Jahi dynasty priceless objects reveals its contributions to Hyderabad | website=India Today | date=2013-01-10 | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/heritage/story/20000306-display-of-asaf-jahi-dynasty-priceless-objects-reveals-its-contributions-to-hyderabad-777173-2000-03-06 | access-date=2021-02-20}}</ref> she laid the foundation stone of Hyderabad's Begumpet airport's first terminal,<ref name="Khan 2020"/> and was presented with a silver casket.<ref name="India Today 2013"/> She also inaugurated the famous Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College Hospital at [[Aligarh Muslim University]], Aligarh<ref name="Seshan 2018"/> in 1939.<ref name="Umar"/>

Together with her cousin Niloufer, Dürrüşehvar advocated girls' education and women's rights. They were given free rein, as the Nizam adored both his daughters-in-law, whom he often introduced as the "jewels of his palace". He also encouraged both of them to take part in sports, such as tennis and horse-riding. He sent them on tours of Europe so they could broaden their mind and also pick up works of art for his museums." Both cousins are remembered as great beauties, socialites, style icons, and philanthropists.<ref name="Khan 2020"/> In the company of her friend [[Rani Kumudini Devi]], she rode horses, drove cars and played tennis. With her beauty and charm, etiquette and dress sense, she transformed Hyderabad’s social circuit.<ref name="Seshan 2018"/>

On 6 May 1935, she and her husband attended the twenty-fifth commemorating ceremony of King [[George V]]'s reign.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=155}} On 12 May 1937, they attended the [[Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth|coronation]] of King [[George VI]] and Queen [[The Queen Mother|Elizabeth]], where she was photographed by British photographer [[Cecil Beaton]].<ref name="Genç 2015">{{cite web | last=Genç | first=Kaya | title=Portraits of Princess Dürrüşehvar and many others at Cecil Beaton exhibition | website=Daily Sabah | date=2015-05-30 | url=https://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2015/05/30/portraits-of-princess-durrusehvar-and-many-others-at-cecil-beaton-exhibition | access-date=2021-02-20}}</ref> On 23 June 1937, she accompanied her husband during the visit to lay the foundation stone of a new mosque in Kensington and was at Ranelagh to see Bhopal win the Ranelagh Open Polo Cup.<ref>{{cite web | title=Mary Evans The Princess of Berar 10651934 | website=maryevans.com | date=1937-06-23 | url=https://www.maryevans.com/history/the-princess-of-berar-10651934 | access-date=2021-02-20}}</ref> Beaton photographed her in her palace in India in 1944, and then in 1965 in France.<ref name="Genç 2015"/> [[Philip Mason]], of the Indian Civil Service, described her as "a commanding figure, handsome of feature, with a clear fair complexion and auburn hair… No one could ignore her or slight her. She was always essentially and indefinably royal, and it seems to me that if fate had so willed she might have been one of the great queens of the world."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1510174/Princess-Durruhsehvar-of-Berar.html|title=Princess Dürrühsehvar of Berar|date=11 February 2006|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>

==Later life and death==
[[File:Azam_Jah_and_his_family.jpg|thumb|right|Dürrüşehvar with her husband and sons]]
She ensured her sons, Prince Mukarram Jah and Prince Muffakam Jah, received the best possible western education in Europe and married Turkish brides, as she desired. Mukarram studied in Eton. Years later, he was declared heir to Hyderabad throne, at the suggestion of his grandfather, and served as honorary [[aide-de-camp]] to Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].<ref name="Seshan 2018"/> Each time she returned to Hyderabad for a visit, she attracted big crowds.<ref name="Khan 2020"/>

In 1944, she called Nilüfer requesting help for the burial of her father. She had made several efforts to have her father's body buried in Istanbul, but could not obtain the permission of the Turkish government. He had wanted to be buried in either Turkey or Hyderabad. Nilüfer called one of her friends, [[Malik Ghulam Muhammad]], a former official in the Nizam's Government, who was at that time the Governor-General of [[Pakistan]]. He called [[Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], the then King of Saudi Arabia to relay the request. The King agreed to grant the request, and Dürrüşehvar's father was finally buried in Saudi Arabia in the [[Al-Baqi']].<ref>{{cite web | last=Moin | first=Ather | title=Hyderabad: Niloufer helped in Caliph's burial in Madina | website=Deccan Chronicle | date=2019-01-04 | url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/040119/hyderabad-niloufer-helped-in-caliphs-burial-in-madina.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104032746/https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/040119/hyderabad-niloufer-helped-in-caliphs-burial-in-madina.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 January 2019 | access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref>

In 1983, she sponsored the [[Durru Shehvar Children's & General Hospital]] in Hyderabad under the patronage of her son Mukarram Jah.<ref>{{cite book|author1=M.a.khan|author2=Mohd. Akbar Ali Khan|title=Hospital Management|year=1999|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-060-4|page=217}}</ref> In 1990, she, her son Mufakkham Jah and his wife Esin attended the Durban Dinner, along with the Indian and Pakistani High Commissioners in London to commemorate the 400th year of the foundation of Hyderabad.<ref>{{cite book|author=Karen Isaksen Leonard|title=Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad|year=2007|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-5442-2|page=97}}</ref>

She visited Hyderabad lastly in 2004,<ref name="Seshan 2018"/> and died on 7 February 2006 in London.{{sfn|Bardakçı|2017|p=xiv}} Her two sons were by her side at the time of her death.<ref name="Khan 2020"/> She was buried in [[Brookwood Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Clark|title=Istanbul: A Cultural and Literary History|year=2010|publisher=Signal Books|isbn=978-1-904955-76-4|page=223}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Yunus Ayata|title=Dergi semasında bir yıldız: Utarid|year=2007|publisher=Salkımsöğüt Yayınları|isbn=978-975-6122-54-9|page=62}}</ref> She was upset about Turkish Government's attitude against her family members after declaration of the republic. Despite being a member of Ottoman imperial and royal family, she refused to be buried in Turkey, since she was upset that the Turkish Government refused her father's burial in Istanbul in 1944.<ref name=Aksiyon>{{cite journal|last=Doğan|first=İbrahim|title=Türkiye'de gömülmek istemedi (She didn't want to be buried in Turkey.)|journal=Aksiyon|date=13–19 February 2006 |series=Dosyalar ( Files )|issue=584}}(Mainly in Turkish)</ref>

At her death, the ''[[Telegraph (newspaper)|Telegraph]]'' wrote: "There was an occasion when she was lunching with a friend in Oxfordshire, at which Princess Margaret was also a guest. The weather was inclement, and both Princesses were invited to plant cedars of Lebanon. Princess Margaret eventually did so - reluctantly - while the Princess of Berar performed her duty with her customary quiet dignity. Today Princess Margaret’s tree struggles, while the Princess of Berar’s thrives".

==Legacy==
She is remembered for teaching the 'power of silence', and establishing several maternity units, schools, colleges, dispensaries and [[Durru Shehvar Children's & General Hospital]]<ref>{{citeweb |title =Princess Durru Shehvar Children's and General Hospital |url=https://pdscgh.org/}}</ref>
in [[Hyderabad]].<ref name=Poddar2015>{{cite book |last1=Poddar |first1=Abhishek |last2=Gaskell |first2=Nathaniel |last3=Pramod Kumar |first3=K. G |last4=Museum of Art & Photography (Bangalore |first4=India) |title=Maharanis: women of royal India |date=2015 |location=Ahmedabad |isbn=978-93-85360-06-0 |chapter= Palanpur|pages=42–43 |oclc=932267190 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/932267190 |language=English}}</ref>

==Honour==
* [[Order of the House of Osman]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Salnâme-i Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmanîyye, 1333-1334 Sene-i Maliye, 68. Sene|publisher=Hilal Matbaası|year=1918|pages=74–75}}</ref>

==Issue==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Name !! Birth
!Death!! style="width:40%;" |Notes
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| [[Mukarram Jah]]
| 6 October 1933
|15 January 2023<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quint |first=The |date=2023-01-15 |title=Mukarram Jah, Eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, Passes Away |url=https://www.thequint.com/south-india/mukarram-jah-bahadur-eighth-nizam-hyderabad-passed-away-istanbul-esra-nawab-mir-barket-ali-khan-walashan |access-date=2023-08-02 |website=TheQuint |language=en}}</ref>
| Married five times, and had issue, three sons and three daughters
|-
| [[Muffakham Jah]]
| 27 February 1939
|''living''
| Married once, and had issue, two sons
|-
|}

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==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book|first=Murat|last=Bardakçı|title=Neslişah: The Last Ottoman Princess|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-9-774-16837-6}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Dürrüşehvar Sultan}}
*{{Cite web |title=Goodbye, sweet princess - India's great beauties before the pageant came in |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/goodbye-sweet-princess-india-s-great-beauties-before-the-pageant-came-in/cid/818100 |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |language=en}}
*{{Cite web |date=2020-01-26 |title=Durrushehvar, the resolute princess: How the Ottoman dynasty heir brought style, reform to Nizam's Hyderabad |url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/durrushehvar-the-resolute-princess-how-the-ottoman-dynasty-heir-brought-style-reform-to-nizams-hyderabad-7941381.html |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=Firstpost |language=en}}

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[[Category:Daughters of caliphs]]
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Dürrüşehvar Sultan - Revision history

MyronMullet1862 at 03:01, 8 March 2026