Hyderabad, Jan. 22 -- Azmet Jah, the Ninth Nizam of Hyderabad, released a book titled "H.E.H. Mir Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah Bahadur: The Life and Times of the Eighth Nizam of Hyderabad" on Thursday, January 22, containing over 250 rare and previously unseen photographs, historic documents and personal memorabilia.

The book is authored by conservation architect and author Anuradha S Naik and published by the Chowmahalla Palace Trust. Many images in the book are drawn from the Chowmahalla Palace Collection and the personal collection of the immediate family of H.E.H. Mukarram Jah, a press release said.

The majority of the later family photographs were taken by Prince Azmet Jah, a trained cinematographer and the present head of the Asaf...