{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Hyderabad State",
  "now": "india",
  "years": "1724–1948",
  "id": "hyderabad",
  "index": "c/india:1724",
  "title": "Asafia Flag of Hyderabad State",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#fcd116",
      "note": "Field of the Asaf Jah dynasty."
    },
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#236f4f",
      "note": "Horizontal stripes."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Central disc."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#c1272d",
      "note": "Kulah Asifi (dynastic cap emblem)."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- Hyderabad State (1724–1948) was the largest and wealthiest princely state of British India, ruled by the **Asaf Jahi** Nizams\n - **Construction:** a yellow field bearing the **Kulah Asifi** — the dynastic cap-shaped shield — in a central white disc, with Qur'anic calligraphy above (\"Al-'Aẓamatu li-Llāh\" — \"Majesty belongs to God\") and the invocation \"**Yā 'Uthmān**\" below, flanked by two green horizontal stripes\n - Annexed to India in 1948 by the Indian Army's **Operation Polo** after the last Nizam refused accession",
  "flag": "empires/hyderabad.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Hyderabad State",
    "officialName": "Riyasat-i Haidarābād",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The 7th Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, was at one point the world's richest person; his fortune came from Golconda diamonds and Hyderabadi taxes\n - Capital Hyderabad was second only to Delhi in Mughal-era Indian urbanism\n - The flag remained briefly in use for Hyderabad State within India until 1956 reorganisation",
  "_name": "Hyderabad State",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "hyderabad"
}