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AGREEMENT made this twenty-fifth day of January, 1950, between His Excellency the Governor General of India (which expression shall include the Government of India and his and its successors in office) and His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad (which expression shall include his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns).

WHEREAS it has been decided that the Constitution of India adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India shall be the Constitution for the State of Hyderabad as for the other parts of India and shall be enforced as such in accordance with the tenor of its provisions;

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the rights, privileges and dignities, including the dynastic succession and the privy purse, of His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad shall be determined by agreement between him and the Government of India;

IT IS HEREBY agreed as follows:—

(1) His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad shall, with effect from the first day of April 1950, be entitled to receive annually for his privy purse the sum of Rs. 50,00,000 (Rupees fifty lakhs), free of all taxes:

Provided that the sum specified above shall be payable only to the present Nizam of Hyderabad for his life-time, and not to his successors, for whom provision will be made subsequently by the Government of India.

(2) The said amount is intended to cover all the expenses of His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad and his family including expenses on account of his personal staff, maintenance of his residences, marriages and other ceremonies etc., and will neither be increased nor reduced for any reason whatsoever.

(3) The said amount shell be payable to the Nizam of Hyderabad in four equal instalments at the beginning of each quarter in advance.

(4) The payment of the said amount as herein provided is guaranteed by the Government of India.