Genealogy of the Salar Jungs

The Salar Jung family was a noble family of erstwhile Hyderabad state, India under the Nizams, who ruled the state from 1720 to 1948. They are also credited with the safeguarding of rare artefacts and collections, which are now at Salarjung Museum.

Salar Jung family was among the remaining families of the top nobles other than the three great Paigah nobles (who were the highest order of nobility under the Nizams) After them, ranked the Umra-e-Uzzam. The Salar Jung family was one amongst the Umra-e-Uzzam. The ancestry of the Salar Jungs is dated back to the Sixteenth century, by the middle of the 19th century the family assumed importance that five of the family members served as Grand Viziers to the Nizams of Hyderabad.

Genealogy of the Salar Jungs

The Salar Jung Museum Hyderabad

The Salar Jung Museum was established in 1951 under the supervision of Salar Jung Estate Committee. Later, an act of Parliament known as “Salar Jung Museum Act-1961” was passed on 19^th May 1961, thereby the museum along with its extensive library was declared as an institution of national importance and the Administration was transferred to the Salar Jung Museum Board, an autonomous body, formed under the purview of the Act.