According to East India Company, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last of the Nizams, was the first and richest billionaire of India. Nizam Osman Ali played an important role in establishing Osmania University. Nizam Osman Ali, however, preferred to wear simple clothes and did not clean his bedroom daily. Nizam Osman Ali had his own currency and possessed 100 million pounds of gold, 400 million pounds of jewels. This means that Nizam Osman was much richer than business tycoons Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani and others.

Source: dna August 02, 2023 16:35 UTC