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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalandde00willgoog#page/n5/mode/1up ''Historical and descriptive sketch of His Highness the Nizam's Dominions Volume 1''] by Syed Hossain Bilgrami and C Willmott of H H’s Civil Service 1883 Archive.org | *[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalandde00willgoog#page/n5/mode/1up ''Historical and descriptive sketch of His Highness the Nizam's Dominions Volume 1''] by Syed Hossain Bilgrami and C Willmott of H H’s Civil Service 1883 Archive.org | ||
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ajmu3TVj9ykC&pg=PP5 ''Hints on irregular cavalry: its conformation, management and use in both a military and political point of view''] by Capt Charles Farquhar Trower, H. H. The Nizam’s Cavalry 1845 Google Books | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ajmu3TVj9ykC&pg=PP5 ''Hints on irregular cavalry: its conformation, management and use in both a military and political point of view''] by Capt Charles Farquhar Trower, H. H. The Nizam’s Cavalry 1845 Google Books | ||
| + | *[http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/gazeetter_reprint/Aurangabad/home.html ''Gazetteer of the Nizam’s Dominion-Aurangabad District''] originally published 1884 Gazetteers Department of the Govt of Maharashtra | ||
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Revision as of 11:13, 28 May 2010
Hyderabad State, also referred to as the Nizam's Dominions was the largest of the Princely states. Not a part of British India, it was ruled by a Nizam (a hereditary position) from 1724 to 1948.
The state had borders with the Madras Presidency to the south, the Bombay Presidency to the west and Berar and the Central Provinces to the north. Its capital was the city of Hyderabad.
Contents
Records
British Library Records
Baptisms,Marriages and Burials-Indian (Princely) States 1890-1946, N/5.
Books
List of inscriptions on tombs or monuments in H.E.H. the Nizam's dominions :with biographical notes by O.S. Crofton.. Hyderabad, Published under the authority of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Govt., 1941. Available at the British Library.
This India List thread gives the names of the cemeteries in 1939, probably taken from the previous book.
LDS Microfilms
A keyword search in the LDS Library Catalogue for Hyderabad shows entries
External links
Historical books online
- The Nizam: his History and Relations with the British Government by Henry George Briggs 1861 Volume 1, Archive.org Volume 2, Google Books
- Our Faithful Ally The Nizam by Captain Hastings Fraser 1865 Google Books
- Historical and descriptive sketch of His Highness the Nizam's Dominions Volume 1 by Syed Hossain Bilgrami and C Willmott of H H’s Civil Service 1883 Archive.org
- Hints on irregular cavalry: its conformation, management and use in both a military and political point of view by Capt Charles Farquhar Trower, H. H. The Nizam’s Cavalry 1845 Google Books
- Gazetteer of the Nizam’s Dominion-Aurangabad District originally published 1884 Gazetteers Department of the Govt of Maharashtra
Other
- "Reprinting Deccan heritage" The Hindu, Jan 14, 2010 talks about the reprint of the book Glimpses of The Nizam's Dominions being an exhaustive photographic history of the Hyderabad state, Deccan, India. With nearly 600 superbly reproduced views by Claude Campbell first published in 1898.
