Executive Council Secretariat

The Council of State was created in 1884 and dissolved in 1893 and the Cabinet Council was formed by Nizam the VI Mir Mahboob Ali khan. On 17th November 1919 the Cabinet Council was abolished by Mir Osman Ali Khan, Nizam the VII, owning to observing the democratic tendency in the State and created the Executive Council for the better administration of the State. The first Sadar-i-Azam or President of the Council was Sir Syed Ali Imam. The main functions of this Council were defining the cases, which required the Nizam’s orders, and cases which could be disposed of by the President and cases which must be referred to the Council as well as the powers of the Council. The most of the records of the Bab-i-Hukumat consists of original Farmans of Nizam The VII. The records including farmans of the Executive Council (Bab-i-Hukumat) are in Urdu. This department records were transferred to Central Records office,Hyderabad.

The detailed particulars of the records of the Executive Council are given below:

S.No	Nature of the Document	Periodicity	No.of Records
1	Files	1891-1950 A.D.	32,345
2	Registers form	1919-1984 A.D.	370