Author: Omar KhalidiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The British Residency in Hyderabad
Author: Omar KhalidiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Nizam
Author: Henry George BriggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Raja Deen Dayal
Author: Narendra LutherPublisher: Hyderabadi
ISBN: 8190175203
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
On the photographic works of Deen Dayal, Indian photographer; includes reproductions of his photographs.
White Mughals
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101098120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—'Most excellent among Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister and a descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of the subcontinent. Instead, he fell in love with Khair and overcame many obstacles to marry her—not least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company. It is a remarkable story, involving secret assignations, court intrigue, harem politics, religious and family disputes. But such things were not unknown; from the early sixteenth century, when the Inquisition banned the Portuguese in Goa from wearing the dhoti, to the eve of the Indian mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassments to successive colonial administrations. William Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as 'Hindoo Stuart', who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and who spent many years trying to persuade the memsahibs of Calcutta to adopt the sari; and Sir David Ochterlony, Kirkpatrick's counterpart in Delhi, who took all thirteen of his wives out for evening promenades, each on the back of their own elephant. In White Mughals, William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre a compelling tale of love, seduction and betrayal. It possesses all the sweep and resonance of a great nineteenth-century novel, set against a background of shifting alliances and the manoeuvring of the great powers, the mercantile ambitions of the British and the imperial dreams of Napoleon. White Mughals, the product of five years' writing and research, triumphantly confirms Dalrymple's reputation as one of the finest writers at work today.
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
Author: Eric Lewis BeverleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107091195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad
Author: Benjamin B. CohenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674987659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Benjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In the struggle of one couple, he exposes the fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.
"The Russell's Airborne Fraternity 3rd Battalion
Author: Lieutenant Colonel RP Singh Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) was raised in March 1813 at Chudderghat ( now Chaderghat) on the banks of the Musi river in Hyderabad under the auspices of Henry Russell as 1stBattalion, The Russell’s Brigade. After having undergone eight name changes since it’s raising it assumed its present name in April 2004. Ever since its raising, it has covered itself with glory, first as part of the Hyderabad Contingent of the State Forces of the Nizam of Hyderabad, then as part of the forces of the Madras Presidency Army of the East India Company, the Indian Army under the British and finally after Independence, as part of the Indian Army of free India. During its history of over two hundred years, the Battalion has a proud record of having acquitted itself with distinction both at home and abroad in various theatres of operations. Prior to Independence in 1947 individuals of the Battalion had earned 157 awards for Gallantry and Distinguished Service and post-Independence till date 392.
Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book ...
Author: The Nizam
Author: Henry George BriggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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