The Hyderabad History Project

Authentic and untold stories of Hyderabad's history by journalist @YunusLasania . Also host of the podcast Beyond Charminar on @Sunoindia_in. Civil discussions

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Also, these are the basic facts all of us Hyd'is should know: City was founded in 1591 by Mohd Quli Qutb Shah. His grandfather Sultan Quli, a Persian from Hamadan (Iran), founded the Golconda empire in 1518. The Golconda fort was a walled-city before Hyd was built.
#History

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Dialects of Sindhi

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A lesser known part of Hyderabad's history from the Sepoy Mutiny or the first war of independence.

The word Turram Khan comes from Turrebaaz Khan's valour and bravery, after he died post the mutiny in Hyderabad

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1. Maulana Alauddin, Turrebaaz Khan & the martyrs of 17 July, 1857

On 17th July, 1857, 5000-6000 freedom fighters of Hyderabad made a daring attack on the British Residency building (now University Women’s College, Koti) to free the imprisoned mutineer Jamedar Cheeda Khan

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@aslanpahari Mysore sultanate is technically a misnomer. It was a sultanate only until Tipu lasted and was one during his time. Otherwise the Mysore state was pretty much run by the Wodeyar Rajas.

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My grandmother and beautiful (book) cover-girl turns 90 today!

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Today at #QutubShahiTombs Heritage Walk With @ProjectHyd , @serish sir, and @DeccanArchive . 🤳👌

#HyderabadHistory
@HiHyderabad

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THREAD alert. On the 1908 Musi river floods. Which took place 113 years ago

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THREAD: September 28 and 29 mark the 1908 Musi river floods' anniversary, and the destruction #Hyderabad witnessed then. It changed the city,forcing the Nizam to flood-proof and modernize #Hyderabad .This is a flood level marker at over 15 ft in height. Here's what happened then:

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Most people identify #Hyderabad as the “city of Nizams and Nawabs", but that’s only one side of the story. While the city has a rich history, there’s another side to Hyderabad in terms of its colonial heritage as well.

🎶https://t.co/7v0DyMRC0H

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Here's the entire BHAGNAGAR/Bhagamati legend by @lasaniayunus and also a picture of the Charminar from 1944 without the temple
#HyderabadElection #Hyderabad #GHMCResults #GHMCResults2020

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Charminar without the temple, from the 1944 book Hyderabad: A Souvenir. BJP's aim to rename Hyd doesn't come from the Bhagmati love story/legend, but from the unauthorised temple. The issue in detail, my first for @thewire_in :
#Hyderabad #GHMCElections

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The story of how Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s daughter Kulsum Zamani Begum fled from Delhi https://t.co/oys2momX6b

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Here are a handful of articles by @lasaniayunus on #OperationPolo over the past few years. Do read apart from the thread:

https://t.co/QqOOJl9qbL

https://t.co/uueR3knr59

https://t.co/riP2tTLP2G

https://t.co/n1l7St8eEl

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(IMPORTANT THREAD ALERT!) Sept 17, this day, marks 72 years since the erstwhile Hyderabad State, ruled by the last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, was annexed to India in 1948 through the Indian military offensive Operation. Here's a long thread on it by @lasaniayunus

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[THREAD on HYDERABAD's ANNEXATION to INDIA].This is a pic of the Indian flag being replaced with that of the Hyderabad state's on 17 Sept, 1948, after the princely state was annexed to India through Operation Polo, a military offensive. Some thoughts based on my research: (1/n)

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Fastest growth in COVID-19 cases and the steepest fall in GDP in the world. Guess govt has mixed up the graphs. But yes let's discuss Indian dog breeds.

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Iran’s national library archives, manuscripts, documents, etc are now online and searchable

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@cobbaltt Check out @SunoIndia_in and specifically Beyond Charminar. 😄

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The UK is a country with a deep and lingering sickness in its soul

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@coreenasuares2

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How #Hyderabad was transformed from a provincial capital to a modern metropolis under the last Nizam of Hyderabad, after the 1908 Musi river floods. Here's a detailed and chronological account written in @NewsMeter_In by @lasaniayunus #osmaniahospital
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[THREAD]:The 1908 Musi river flood is remembered as a calamity, and it is etched into #Hyderabad 's history books forever. But it is more than just a historic event, as it also changed the city's landscape itself, as it forced the Nizams to rethink and modernize Hyderabad. (1/n)

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Osmania Hospital, the High Court, Govt. City College, etc are a part of the skyline when one looks across the Musi River. All three were designed by the architect Vincent Esh, and were built around the same time under the CIB. Even slums were redeveloped under CIB. An example:

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[THREAD]:The 1908 Musi river flood is remembered as a calamity, and it is etched into #Hyderabad 's history books forever. But it is more than just a historic event, as it also changed the city's landscape itself, as it forced the Nizams to rethink and modernize Hyderabad. (1/n)

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The birth of the City Improvement Board (CIB), constituted by Osman Ali Khan to develop Hyderabad, in 1912, may even have lessons for our current government on how to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Here's an archival image of the High Court from across the Musi River

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Osman Ali Khan ascended the throne in 1911, and became the 7th and last Nizam of the erstwhile Hyderabad state. Unfortunately, it would also be marked with an epidemic, as cases of the bubonic plague was beginning to surface in Hyderabad, which alerted the city’s administration