Death
In 1944, he had gone to a dinner at the house of Hashim Ali Khan, a judge of the High Court and a close friend. Coming rather late, he ran up the steps and apologized to his host and other guests. Then he sat down and, as he took a pull at the hookah, he collapsed. His sudden and unexpected death raised suspicion that he was poisoned allegedly at he instance of the Nizam. But only whispers were heard. However, the Nizam joined the mammoth funeral procession the next morning. His early death changed the course of history in the Hyderabad State.
After his death the Muslims mourned throughout the India. And his absence was acutely felt during the rest of the separation and formation of Pakistan, especially the 1945-46 general elections when the fate of Muslim state was hung in the balance. After the integration of Hyderabad with the Indian Union, the fist wave of immigrants from the state were committed enough to set up an Academy named after him in Karachi, Pakistan.
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