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The Nizam's Dominions: Views, Government and People, The Royal Family and State Functions (An Old and Rare Book)

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Item Code: HBE964
Author: Edited By Y. Vaikuntham
Publisher: Andhra Pradesh Government Oriental Manuscripts Library And Research Institute, Hyderabad
Language: English
Edition: 2013
ISBN: 9789380379296
Pages: 172 (With B/W Illustrations)
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9x12 inch
Weight 1.09 kg
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About the Book

The present work in three parts covering 150 photos of 50 in each part on Nizam's Dominions of various places and events was an impressive and outstanding contribution of Raja Deen Dayal to the history, culture and glory of the Nizam's Dominions. The photographs available in our records have been taken for publication in 'as is on condition without adopting chronology or theme; Further, these photographs have been taken when, where and what occasion is not clear in many cases, but our sincere effort to collect some details of the photographs was modestly successful, hence we are placing them before the enlightened public. I am glad to say that this is the 96th publication of this institute.

Preface

For her imperial masters, India- with its teeming millions, seemingly unlimited resources and a host of loyal Princes- was a Jewel in the British Crown. And Hyderabad, straddling across the width of its southern peninsula, was a premier one among Princely States dotting the map of the subcontinent. The ruler of Hyderabad's 21 gun-salute State bore the exceptional title of His Exalted Highness an honour that was available to none other among more than India's five hundred ruling princes. Its ruler, the Nizam, allowed himself to be called Yaar-o-Wafadar Sultanat-e-Bartania: Faithful Ally of the British Empire. On account of its size, population and inner resources, the State invited favourable comparison with other leading Indian States, and even countries outside the subcontinent.

The origins of Hyderabad State lay in the penultimate phase of fast-diminishing Mughal power. By 1724, within less than twenty years following the death of Aurangzeb, the last effective Mughal emperor, the country was imploding with a variety of regional uprisings, and in some cases open rebellion, against the Empire. The imperial Mughal court was itself a hapless witness and victim to the intrigues of the infamous Sayyid brothers whose wiles and disloyalty merely served to lay the foundations of the dynasty's eventual decline. It was under such dispiriting developments that an intrepid and ambitious Mughal general, Mir Qamruddin Khan, whom history has later known as Chin Qilich Khan Fateh Jung Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah, decided to leave the intrigue- and faction-ridden Delhi durbar, to establish himself as ruler of a near-independent region in the southern part of the empire: the sprawling Deccan. Thus was Hyderabad State brought into existence. The line founded by Nizam-ul-Mulk, the Asif Jahs, held sway over the region for more than two centuries, accommodating in the process two pretenders and six of his recognized successors.

In the prevailing militarised environment and the temper of times it was the strength of the sword that decided the fate and lent longevity to States and empires. So it was with Hyderabad. After the demise of its founder, Nizam-ul-Malk, his enfeebled successors displayed, more to sustain themselves in elusive authority, a readiness to cultivate the newly-arrived, mutually antagonistic foreign trading firms. The reigns of four Nizams who followed the founder witnessed increasing disruptions, a feeling of uneven and oscillating insecurity and, as a consequence, growing dependence on alien powers. They relied on the French and the British companies for protection against marauding neighbours and for containment of internal lawlessness. Alliances were struck and districts were ceded alternately with both. Successive treaties, including a debilitating Subsidiary Alliance entered into with the British, brought little gain and served only to relegate the Nizam to the position of a subordinate protectee. Further disappointments awaited the State steadily thereafter. A wholly inessential body of expensive troops, the Hyderabad Contingent, was raised by the British, ostensibly for their 'ally' Nizam's protection, who was then persuaded to finance its birth, rapid growth and maintenance. In 1853 the Viceroy contrived, under false pretence, to grab the most fertile cotton-growing province of the State, the Berar province, along with some Assigned Districts. Those districts were restored in 1860 but not Berar despite protest of the luckless ally. Things could not have been more unpleasant for the Nizam who was getting truly trapped in the grand imperial design of Britain. Because of the strains caused by circumstances such as these for the State, the times were evidently not conducive for the introduction of any kind of organised mode or method in administration.

Foreword

Our ancient manuscripts, both in paper and in palm leaves play an important and vital role in protecting and preserving the Indian Culture and Heritage. Our ancestors had made selfless efforts to propogate and preserve our ancient Indian Culture to later generations. Today we find a large volume of manuscripts pertaining to poetry, deats to medicine, astrology, astronomy etc., found in these ancient leaves wherein our forefathers had put all their efforts to preserve the knowledge known either from master-disciple tradition or family tradition. It is not an exaggeration to say that they succeeded in their continuous efforts and bequeathed knowledge to us. To pay our homage to our forefathers, we should also have to make our own efforts for protecting, preserving and digitalizing the manuscripts in scientific ways and also to pass on this treasure of knowledge to coming generations. Today we see, the state and central governments are making all efforts to collect and protect the manuscripts. Several scholars of abroad are also eager to know the valuable treasure of literature, grammar, medicine, astrology, astronomy etc., from our manuscripts.

It is the need of hour to protect all our ancient manuscripts. The Andhra Pradesh State Government had established this Oriental Manuscripts Library and Research Institute as an independent directorate in the year 1975 with a view to collect and preserve valuable manuscripts and to make them available to scholars. It is one of the richest repositories of India containing nearly 24,000 manuscripts in 16 languages i.e., Telugu, Sanskrit, Urdu, Arabic, Persian etc. Several of these are rare and important manuscripts which are not found or known any where else. We have rich collection of above 17,000 manuscripts of Urdu, Arabic and Persian languages in our institute in 47 subjects i.e., Usail I-Fiqa, Tarikah, Tassuaf, Geography, Hadeeth, Tib-I-Unani, Fatawa, Falsafa, Narainjath etc. This institute had under taken programmes, surveying and collecting the manuscripts from the nook and corner of Andhra Pradesh, preserving them on modern scientific ways, publishing them in a phased manner, keeping them available for research scholars, conducting national seminars and workshops on manuscripts, conducting manuscripts awareness campaigns in all districts of Andhra Pradesh etc. The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) working under Department of Culture, Government of India, is also putting its efforts in this great and pious task.

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