Hyderabad State

State · 1727–1947 CE · at its largest around 1744 CE

A large Deccan princely state founded by the Asaf Jahi Nizams, Mughal viceroys who became independent and later allied with the British; India annexed it in 1948.

On its lands while it lasted

• Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1871 CE): Survey that measured the Indian subcontinent by triangulation, beginning at Madras in 1802; it established the height of Mount Everest.

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