Nizam Of Hyderabad Research Articles

The Power of Parwanas: Indo-Persian Grants and the Making of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Southern India

This article examines Persian-language orders—parwanas—issued by regimes that succeeded the Mughal Empire in South Asia, to European trading companies. Focussing in particular on the mid-eighteenth-century exchanges between the Nizam of Hyderabad; the Nawab of Arcot; and the French Compagnie des Indes, we see how Mughal-style parwanas, or sub-imperial orders, previously used to give instructions or to make or withdraw grants, were transformed into a form of political currency. They were now used to exchange military and fiscal resources between South Asian state-builders and militarised European corporations, and to secure political legitimacy for all within a putative Mughal imperium. Moreover, the legal fiction of Mughal sovereignty led to a grants race, such that rivals—European and South Asian—sought more and more parwanas, while also querying the legitimacy of authorities that issued them. The very fragility of the Mughal empire and the lability of the political landscape in eighteenth-century South Asia was thus generative of prolific Persian legal documentation, as well as its rewiring to novel uses. European empire-builders negotiated this legal landscape with only partial literacy, consequently fetishizing the material aspects and ceremonial accompaniments of Persian legal documents, and according them power beyond their immediate substance.

TIPU SULTAN REVENUE ADMINISTRATION IN BARAMAHAL REGION

The purpose of this paper is to find out the historical aspects of Revenue Administration and its experiment in Baramahal had great important in the revenue history of Madras Presidency. Revenue is the backbone of any administration. Hence the Tipu Sultan had aimed to collect the land revenue through different systems.Old English Mysore war (1790-1792) reached a conclusion after the deficiency of a large portion of Tipu Sultan's domains. The Treaty of Srirangapatnam was endorsed on March 17, 1792. By that the British acquired Dindigul, Baramahal and Malabar. The lost Baramahal was not in the least recuperated by the Mysore King. At any rate after the fall of Srirangapatnam on May 4, 1799, it fell under the control of the alliance of the British, the Maratha and the Nizam of Hyderabad. After the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War 1799, Baramahal was added with the British domain alongside Kanara, Coimbatore, Wynad, Dharapuram and the waterfront area of the Mysore realm. With this short recorded sketch it will be adept to have an examination about the exercises of Tipu Sultan in Baramahal. Keywords: Revenue Administration, Baramahal, Amildars, Kotwals, Tallatits, Inam, Devadhanam, Lebbais Thanadar, Kotwals Talaiyaris

From soldier to spectacle: Africans and the langar procession in Hyderabad

ABSTRACT In this article I explore the role of Africans in the Nizam of Hyderabad’s armed forces at the end of the nineteenth century. In particular I focus on their representation in newspaper and eye-witness accounts during their participation in the annual langar procession in Hyderabad city. Tens of thousands of local Hyderabadis as well as Britons and other foreign guests witnessed this procession that involved thousands of individuals drawn from the Nizam’s military members. I argue that by this time Africans in Hyderabad city had transitioned from active soldiers in the Nizam’s forces to a form of spectacle. Accounts of Africans reveal the ways in which their racial identity marked them as different from their Indian counterparts and how they embodied a kind of spectacle that was consumed by both Indians and Britons alike during the procession.

Reviving rural economy: A study on Telangana, India

Revamping of rural economy is critical for the livelihood of majority people in Telangana. Of the 3.5 crore population in the state, about 2.13 crore population lives in rural areas. While agriculture has been mainstay of rural folk in Telangana, non-farm activities fetch additional income apart from providing direct livelihood to many. Non-farm activities in rural economy include animal husbandry i.e., production of milk, meat, poultry, fishing, agro-processing industries and storage etc. Sizable population also depend on traditional occupations and are engaged as black smith, bronze-smith, carpenter, goldsmith, potter, tailor, toddy tappers, washer man and weavers etc., for their livelihood. The chapter delineates the status of agricultural allied activities in the state along with initiatives undertaken by the Government on livestock, animal husbandry and fisheries. Telangana is one of the 29 states in India, located in southern India. Formed in June 2014 as the newest state in India, from the northern part of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana has an area of 112, 077 square kilometres (43, 273 sq. mi), and a population of 35, 193, 978 (2011 census). It is the twelfth largest state in India, and the twelfth most populated State in India. It's Major Cities. Include Hyderabad, Warangal, Nizamabad, Khammam, Karimnagar and Ramagundam. Telanga na is bordered by the states of Maharashtra to the north and North West, Chhattisgarh to the north, Karnataka to the west and Andhra Pradesh to the east and south. Telangana had a history as the Telugu-speaking region of the princely state of Hyderabad, ruled by the Nizam of Hyderabad. It joined the Union of India in 1948. In 1956, the Hyderabad state was dissolved as part of the linguistic reorganization of states and Telangana was merged with former Andhra State to form Andhra Pradesh. Following a movement for separation, Telangana was awarded separate statehood on 2 June 2014. Hyderabad will continue to serve as the joint capital city for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for a period of not more than ten years.

Intercultural Diplomacy at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, 1770–1815

Descriptions of Indian rulers’ diplomatic encounters with EIC officials reveal contempt for these ‘paltry merchants’. Despite these discourses in the practices of interaction, this article argues, we find surprisingly commensurable structures and rules of engagement. The fact that British diplomatic agents were not high-ranking royal ambassadors enabled them to adapt to Indo-Persian norms of comportment. Indian rulers understood the ‘Residents’ at their courts within the Mughal diplomatic function of a wakil, intermediaries between patrons and clients within the polity as well as with other regional rulers. Both Asian and European wakils were far from being bureaucratic functionaries. Their individual standing depended on personal performance and ties with both their employer and the local ruler they were despatched to. Consequently, Asian and British diplomatic agents moved within a double network of patronage and often found themselves in situations of ambiguous loyalties. However, the global mobilization during the French Revolutionary Wars intensified monopolistic claims of the British nation state. The Treaty of 1800 extinguished Hyderabad’s external sovereignty and the Resident came to represent the exclusive channel of foreign relations. These transformations in political power were not immediately reflected in courtly ceremonials, where Residents were displaying subservience well into the nineteenth century.

London, Lucknow and the Global Indian City c. 1857–1920

AbstractWhen Abdul Halim Sharar (1860-1926) set sail for England to ensure the Eton College-bound son of Viqar-ul Omrah (Prime Minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad, 1894–1901) received an Indo-Islamic education, it was Sharar's first foray outside of India. Like many previous Indian travelers he found his experiences to be eye opening. Inspired by his sojourns in England, Italy, France, and Spain, he serially published his travelogues upon his return to India in 1896. Providing examples of the failures and successes of industrialization, such accounts were evocative in their detail. They provided middle class Indians with global and historical perspectives of the changes brought by colonialism, industrialization, and urbanization in European and Indian cities. Drawing from Sharar's and other travelers’ accounts of the period, this essay examines the use of literature to humanize Lucknow's urban landscape, not only to transform the city, but also the relationship between the city and its inhabitants into one of sympathy and affection.

The Role of Religious Procession among the Afro-Indians of the African Cavalry Guards in Hyderabad

This article presents a study of the Siddis of the African Cavalry Guards in Hyderabad, India. I first present an ethnographic description of an annual, sacred performance within the Afro-Indian community of Hyderabad and then provide a comparative analysis. The evidence supports a key conclusion from a previous study that there are elements of tension within the Afro-Indian population in Hyderabad. However, the nature of such tensions is different than previously characterised. These tensions primarily concern varying approaches to promoting community cohesion and ongoing processes of transforming Afro-Indian identities. This article also addresses a broader, comparative perspective by relating these social dynamics of the Afro-Indians in Hyderabad with those from Gujarat and Mumbai. In Hyderabad, a primary element of Afro-Indian heritage is based on the shared memory of earlier generations' participation as free guards and soldiers for the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Mah Laqa Bai and Gender: The Language, Poetry, and Performance of a Courtesan in Hyderabad

Shi`i devotion and Urdu poetry both flourished in unique ways in the Deccan region, but did these cultural phenomena allow new creativity for women? This question can be addressed by examining the courtesan Mah Laqa Bai (AH 1181–1240/1768–1824), one of the most powerful figures in the court of the second Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam `Ali Khan (r. 1762–1803), and the third Nizam, Sikandar Jah (r. 1803–29), as well as being mistress to their prime ministers of Iranian descent. She was one of the first women poets to compile a full divan of Urdu ghazals and was adept at music and dance. This essay examines the issue of gender in her poetry and personality. It argues that she wrote as a woman but in the poetic male voice. She wrote at a time when Urdu in the Deccan region was being altered to conform to Mogul standards with heavy “Persianization” of its diction. The essay asks whether Deccani Urdu was a feminine language before this reform, as argued by some literary historians of the Deccan. It then asks whether Mah Laqa Bai had a feminist agenda as a women poet of the eighteenth century, as charged by some feminist scholars of the Deccan. The essay concludes that Mah Laqa Bai's concept of the feminine was shaped by her role as a dancing female devotee of Imam `Ali, rather than by linguistic structures or political ideologies.

Raja Deen Dayal and Sons: Photographing Hyderabad’s Famine Relief Efforts

This paper studies a collection of photographs that document a famine relief effortorganized by the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad (India). Made by the firm of Raja DeenDayal and Sons and assembled in an album now preserved in the Andhra PradeshState Archives, the photographs reveal much about the relationship betweenphotography, modernity and statecraft in late nineteenth-century princely India.

Transnationalism, Diaspora, Translation

Sikh Formations, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 51– 66 Karen Leonard TRANSNATIONALISM, DIASPORA, TRANSLATION Comparing Punjabis and Hyderabadis abroad Themes and theories Comparing the Punjabi diaspora to the US and the Hyderabadi diaspora worldwide is more than an intellectual exercise investigating issues of transnationalism, cosmopo- litanism and translation studies. An ethnographic comparison illuminates the ways in which migrants define and represent themselves and their experiences over time and in different contexts. Both diasporas represent the decline, at different points in time, of lingering Mughlai or Indo-Muslim societies in South Asia, I argue. The words and phrases used by immigrants show the disintegration of Punjabi and Hyder- abadi plural societies, and they also show slippages, or possible slippages, into com- munities narrowly based on religion. In both cases, the words used to identify and locate self and other in the shifting landscapes testify to significant translations. The comparison is more than a two-way one, since both diasporas have internal contrasts as well. The Punjabi diaspora took place in two distinct historical periods. A few hundred speakers of the Punjabi language in India’s northwestern region migrated to the United States in the early twentieth century, to be followed after the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act by many thousands of Punjabis. Fol- lowers of the Sikh religion were prominent in both movements, although the first diaspora consisted primarily of farmers, rural men who settled in the farming valleys of California and adjacent western states, while the second diaspora featured well-educated professional people moving in family units to cities all over the United States. The Hyderabadis too were internally differentiated. Hyderabadis is a name given chiefly to those from Hyderabad city who had been mulkis (countrymen) or citi- zens of the princely state ruled by the Nizam of Hyderabad, a state incorporated into independent India in 1948. Again there was an earlier diaspora, of Muslims to Paki- stan in 1947– 48, followed by another, beginning in the 1960s, of emigrants to the United States and elsewhere. These later Hyderabadi migrants came from many reli- gious backgrounds (Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Parsi and Christian), although, like the ISSN 1744-8727 (print)/ISSN 1744-8735 (online)/07/010051-16 # 2007 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/17448720701332592

Restoration of Land to Tribals

Parmoita Goswami works in the interiors of rural Maharashtra in the Jivti area of district Chandrapur. This area consists of about eighty villages. This part of the district used to be part of the estate of the Nizam of Hyderabad. During the reorganization of the states, this sub-division was attached with Maharashtra, initially as part of Nanded district and thereafter with Chandrapur district. As part of the reorganization process, the land was first brought under the control of the Maharashtra State. Thereafter pieces of it were allotted to the occupants (both adivasis and others) as per their occupation. Part of the land was also transferred to the Forest Department (FD) or marked for various purposes. Around 1975-76 there was a drought in Nanded and non-adivasis entered the Jivti area to escape the drought. The adivasis who were shy and afraid of outsiders and who did not speak Marathi were no match for the 'Marathas'. They were beaten out or cheated out of their land.Once the non-adivasis realised how easy it was to take possession of adivasi land, they informed others back home and the process continued till recent times. Over the years some non-adivasis bribed revenue officials and entered their names into the revenue records. In some cases the non-adivasis hounded the adivasis out of the land and then brought it to the notice of the revenue officers that the land was lying fallow and should be recovered by the government and re-distributed to the non-adivasis. All revenue officials in the area as well as some police officials were aware of the land grabbing in the area, but nobody came forward to help the adivasis.

Ruth St. Denis and India's dance renaissance

Between January 8 and May 9, 1926, as part of their eighteen-month tour of the Orient, the Denishawn Dance Company performed over one hundred dance concerts in India.' These performances by St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and eight dancers were not subsidized by any government, but basically were supported by the sale of tickets and occasionally by royal patrons, such as the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. The Denishawn dance concerts were presented in theatres in Calcutta, Bombay, Karachi, Quetta, Lahore, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Delhi, Jubbulpore, Allahabad, Secunderabad, and Madras. There is no question that the Denishawn tour in India was successful and popular since it was extended considerably beyond their expectations, and they returned to cities they had already visited. Rave notices from the local press are cited in St. Denis' autobiography and in Jane Sherman's extensive descriptions of the tour and Denishawn repertory, based on her diaries and recollections.2 Both Ted Shawn and Walter Terry stated that St. Denis' visit to India in 1926 with the Denishawn Company was catalytic: it rekindled interest and pride in India's now flourishing dance forms. Terry, for example, said that Ruth St. Denis' non-authentic Indian dance helped reawaken the subcontinent's slumbering dance art and [was]

Rahimtoola v. H.E.H. The Nizam of Hyderabad and Others. [1957] 3 All E.R. 441

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Nizam of Hyderabad and Another v. Jung and Others

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Nizam of Hyderabad and State of Hyderabad v. Jung

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India: The Making of a Nation

weeks of work, the words Royal and His Majesty's had been taken off most of India's mailboxes, trucks and ships. In preparation for the occasion, labourers with chisels and paintbrushes had removed hundreds of crowns from the furniture, doorways and walls of New Delhi's great sandstone Government House. The date was January 26, 1950. In formal ceremony, India was declared a sovereign democratic republic and her new Constitution was inaugurated. It was one of the most peaceful declarations of sovereignty the world had ever seen. The only disturbances were Communist demonstrations in Calcutta and Bombay and the throwing of a hand grenade (which failed to explode) at the Nizam of Hyderabad. Indeed, the occasion marked the conclusion of one of the most remarkable bloodless revolutions of all time. In Church-

The Status of Hyderabad During and after British Rule in India

The relationship between the Government of the Union of India and the Princely State of Hyderabad has attracted world-wide attention. Through what seems to be complete misunderstanding of the legal status of Hyderabad, the United Nations placed the case on the agenda of the Security Council. Although the Nizam of Hyderabad, after the successful conclusion of the Indian Army's punitive expedition into Hyderabad, has petitioned the United Nations to withdraw the case, the question still remains on the agenda.

The Reddis of the Bison Hills

DR. CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMEN-DORF'S volume appears very appropriately, now that far-reaching changes in the administration of India are foreshadowed. For although this is the second volume of a series dealing with the aboriginal tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad's dominions, the problems considered are shared by a large number of primitive tribes in British India, most of whom are less fortunate than those in Hyderabad in that they have never had their problems examined by a trained anthropologist of the same standing. The whole volume is testimony to sympathy, insight, and a power of careful and resourceful analysis of a high order, as well as to the authors' ability to arouse interest in a humble and even humdrum tribe which has none of the spectacular attributes of those on the Assam frontier, for example, though its problems in a rapidly changing environment are, of course, no less urgent. The plentiful illustrations are typical of the brilliant photography which we have learned to associate with Dr. Furer. The Reddis of the Bison Hills A Study in Acculturation. By Dr. Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf., in collaboration with Elizabeth von Furer-Haimendorf. (The Aboriginal Tribes of Hyderabad, Vol. 2.) Pp. xvii + 373 + 84 plates. (Bombay and London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1945.) 20 rupees ; 35s. net.