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Hyderabad: Splendid specimen of Arabic Zodiac Panel of Nazri Bagh, residence of Osman Ali Khan
The Nazri Bagh Palace complex was originally built by a nobleman Kamal Khan and was later sold to the Sixth Nizam, Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, who bought it for his heir apparent,…
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Hyderabad 1948: Military Intervention or Police Action or a Polo Match?
When Dosabhoy Framji Karaka, the Bombay-based veteran war correspondent of British India, wrote about the finer military details of Operation Polo, not only was he implying that the brief war was named…
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British interfered even in the private affairs of the Nizams
The harem culture was common in all royal households in India and it is this very culture that has resulted in succession wars. A common understanding is that the harem and the…
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Hyderabad State: Tracing lineage of the Nizams
Ever since the death of Prince Mukarram Jah on 14th January 2023, who was considered the last and titular Nizam, Hyderabad’s Nizams, the rulers of the Asaf Jahi dynasty are in the…
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Hyderabad grieves the departure of Mukarram Jah; he could have done more for his people
Hyderabad: Prince Mukarram Jah, who was coronated as the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad in 1967, belonged to both the Asafiya and Osmania lineages. His father Nawab Mir Himayat Ali Khan Azam Jah…
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Is Puri Jagannath Temple the final claimant of the Kohinoor?
So many writings have come up on the Kohinoor diamond by contemporary court chroniclers and foreign travellers like Tavernier and Bernier. Many colonial administrators have also given ample information about the esteemed…
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And quietly flows the Musi (Musa)…
Heritage activist, Sajjad Shahid, gives a rational explanation to this saying, “The Musa and Musi are both identical in the Arabic, Persian and Urdu scripts. The only difference is the diacritical ‘alif’…
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Masulipatnam–A forgotten hook in shaping Hyderabad’s destiny
Masulipatnam, now known as Machilipatnam, lying between the mouth of the rivers Krishna and Godavari, is presently the district headquarters in Andhra Pradesh. But this is not the introduction that Masulipatnam deserves…
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The pearl that connected Hyderabad and Basra
The pearl associated with the moon was one of Hyderabad’s prized commodities of trade in the 19th century. The ‘pearl boom’ years—1850 to 1930—was a time when about 4000 to 5000 pearls…
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Hyderabad State: Let’s remember the people for a moment
September 17 feels different this year. Different terms – integration, liberation, surrender – are being used to depict how the curtains came down on the mighty State of Hyderabad. Different dates are…
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Charminar: Decoding the mysterious animals and birds on the monument
The most proportionate and balanced monument built by the Qutb Shahis in the late sixteenth century, the Charminar, is beautifully embellished both from the outside and the inside. Like all Qutb Shahi…
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Are the dates of foundation of Charminar and Hyderabad the same? Maybe not
The Charminar is always newsworthy. The more we get to know the monument, the more elusive it becomes. Over the years, a lot has been written about the naming of the city…
