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'''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.
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'''Hyderabad State''', also referred to as the '''Nizam's Dominions''', was the largest of the [[Princely states]].  Not formally a part of [[British India]], the mainly Hindu state was ruled by a series of hereditary Muslim princes called 'Nizam' (from Nizam-ul-Mulk - Administrator of the Realm <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizam "Nizam"], Wikipedia</ref>) from 1724 to September 1948 when it was forcibly integrated into the Indian Union and the Nizam deposed.
 
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]]: immediately to the capital's north lay [[Secunderabad]], a city in its own right and a military cantonment under direct British rule. Collectively, the two were often referred to as the 'Twin Cities'.
 
There were also other military cantonment under direct British rule. Records of baptisms, marriages and burials which occurred in the cantonments under British rule, will be found in the usual sources. At least for some periods these cantonments were regarded as part of the Madras Presidency.


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]].
==Records==
==Records==
===British Library Records===
 
Baptisms,Marriages and Burials-Indian (Princely) States 1890-1946, N/5.
====British Library Records====
===Books===
*Baptisms,Marriages and Burials - ''Indian (Princely) States 1890-1946, N/5''.  These records are available on the pay website [[findmypast]] and are thought also to be available on the free  [[FamilySearch]] website (noting you are required to be signed in to FS).
''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]].
*Histories of Service, 1879-1903 - V/12/429-33
===LDS Microfilms===
*Civil Lists, 1875-1903 - V/13/1225-32
A keyword search in the [[LDS]] Library Catalogue for Hyderabad shows [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=Hyderabad&prekeyword=Hyderabad entries]
 
====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]], UIN: BLL01001781826, and also in an Indian reprint edition. <ref>[https://heritage.telangana.gov.in/publications/list-of-inscriptions-on-tombs-or-monuments-in-h-e-h-nizam-dominion/ Department of Heritage Telangana reprint] includes a [https://web.archive.org/web/20220721142221/https://heritage.telangana.gov.in/publications/list-of-inscriptions-on-tombs-or-monuments-in-h-e-h-nizam-dominion/ description of the content], the latter an archived page.</ref>
 
==Cemeteries==
Hyderabad and Secunderabad cemetery names have changed over time as detailed below.<ref>Johnson, Ronnie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118023605/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240638/ New Names of Cemeteries in Secunderabad] ''Rootsweb Mailing List'' 7 November 2009, archived and Edwards, Kerry. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118023510/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240596// New Names of Cemeteries in Secunderabad] ''Rootsweb Mailing List'' 8 November 2009, archived.  Includes Hyderabad Cemeteries.</ref>
====LDS Microfilms====
A keyword search in the [[LDS]] Library Catalogue for Hyderabad shows [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AHyderabad entries].
 
== Related articles ==
[[Hyderabad Contingent]]


==External links==
==External links==
===Maps===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=46 Hyderbad State map] Imperial Gazetteer of India Vol 26 Atlas 1909
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*''The Nizam: his History and Relations with the British Government''  by Henry George Briggs 1861 [http://www.archive.org/details/nizamvoli033183mbp Volume 1, Archive.org]  [http://books.google.com/books?id=C35DAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, Google Books]  
*[https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n413/mode/2up Inscriptions from some old tombs in Hyderabad State] from ''Inscriptions on Tombs or monuments in Madras'' by J J Cotton 1905 archive.org
*''Our Faithful Ally The Nizam'' by Captain Hastings Fraser 1865 [http://books.google.com/books?id=58IBAAAAMAAJ Google Books]
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04026/page/44/mode/2up "More Monumental Inscriptions", Nos 816-1029] by Capt. H Bullock pages 44-59 ''Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'' Volume 45 January-March 1933 Archive.org. Includes Hyderabad State from page 51. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32677/2015.32677.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol44#page/n153/mode/2up/ "More Monumental Inscriptions-V", Nos. 1030-1115]  by Capt. H Bullock pages 124-129 ''Bengal, Past and Present'' Volume 45 April-June 1933 Archive.org/DLI. Includes Hingoli, Hyderabad State.  Archive.org/DLI
*[https://archive.org/details/officers-nizams-army/page/n9/mode/2up ''List of Local Officers of the Nizam's Army 1807-1853''] by Lieut.-Colonel H Bullock. 2nd edition 1938, first published 1933. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoircorrespond00fras ''Memoir and correspondence of General James Stuart Fraser of the Madras Army''] by Colonel Hastings Fraser, 2nd edition 1885. Archive.org. General Fraser was in India 1799 to February 1853, the last fourteen years as Resident at Hyderabad
*''British Relations With Hyderabad (1798-1843)''  by Nani Gopal Chaudhuri. 1964. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.532727  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Nizam: his History and Relations with the British Government''  by Henry George Briggs 1861 [http://www.archive.org/details/nizamvoli033183mbp Volume 1, Archive.org]  [http://books.google.com/books?id=C35DAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, Google Books]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=58IBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Our Faithful Ally The Nizam''] by Captain Hastings Fraser 1865 Google Books
*[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
*''A History of the Deccan'' by J D B Gribble [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5836/page/n1/mode/2up Volume I 1896], [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5836/page/n415/mode/2up Volume II 1924] 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
*[https://archive.org/details/gazetteerofauran031184mbp ''Gazetteer Of Aurangabad''] 1884 Published under the orders of His Highness the Nizam’s Government. Archive.org
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20110615071235/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  (archived)
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013558154 ''The Story of My Life''] by the late Colonel Meadows Taylor, edited by his daughter.  New edition 1882 Archive.org. Also see the Fibiwiki page  [[Philip Meadows Taylor]]. Born in 1808, Philip Meadows Taylor arrived in India in 1824. Through contacts he obtained a commission in the Army of the Nizam of Hyderabad.
*''Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal'' by Sir Richard Temple 1887. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088752621?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/journalskeptinh01tempgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107816/page/n3/mode/2up ''Glimpses of the Nizam’s Dominions; being an exhaustive photographic history of the Hyderabad State, Deccan, India; with nearly 600 superbly reproduced views of Peoples, Cities, Towers, Mosques, Cave Temples, Forts, Tombs, Ruins, Palaces, Public Buildings and Natural Wonders, all of which have been specially taken for the purpose by high-class photographers''] by A Claude Campbell 1898. Archive.org  Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
**Includes a chapter [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107816/page/96/mode/2up "H. H. The Nizam's Army"] page 96
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20120703195038/http://www.hindu.com:80/mp/2010/01/14/stories/2010011450030100.htm  "Reprinting Deccan heritage"] ''The Hindu'', Jan 14, 2010, now archived,  talks about the reprint of the above book which  is also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007259846 .
*[https://archive.org/details/britishenactmen00indigoog ''British Enactments in Force in Native States: Southern India (Hyderabad)''] by J M Macpherson 2nd edition 1900. Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/provincialseries00mirzuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series  Hyderabad State''] 1909 Archive,org
*[https://archive.org/details/modernhyderabad031488mbp ''Modern Hyderabad''] by John Law 1914 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6ocIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85  "Report on the Hyderabad Medical School"] ''Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department] No. XXXIV'' 1861 Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.388502 ''Pictorial Hyderabad Volume I''] by K.Krishnaswamy Mudiraj  1929 Archive.org. Images are generally unfortunately of a low standard. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22pictorial%20hyderabad%22 All editions Archive.org], but the images seem poor in all editions.
*The following books are available on Archive.org in the Digital Library of India Collection.
**''The Hyderabad Almanac and Directory for '''1892'''''. No contents page.  List of Principal European and Anglo-Indian Residents in Hyderabad digital page 170  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109860  Archive.org]  
**'''''1936''' Hyderabad Directory'' Contents, digital page 5; Who's Who, digital page 226; Lawyers, digital page 282 Doctors, page 291 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83773  Archive.org].
***[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.83773/2015.83773.1936-Hyderabad-Directory#page/n115/mode/2up "Deccan District British Forces"] page 99
**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Classified+List+Nizams%29&sort=-date ''The Classified List of Officers of the Civil Departments Of H E H The Nizam’s Government'']. Links to  a broken range of editions 1928 to 1940s.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.27391/page/n7/mode/2up ''Hyderabad a Guide to Art and Architecture''] by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 1951. Archive.org, mirror from Archaeological Survey of India at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
 
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 11:29, 29 November 2022

Hyderabad State
Presidency:
Coordinates: 17.366°N 78.476°E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Hyderabad District
State/Province: Pradesh Andra Pradesh
Country: India
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Hyderabad State, also referred to as the Nizam's Dominions, was the largest of the Princely states. Not formally a part of British India, the mainly Hindu state was ruled by a series of hereditary Muslim princes called 'Nizam' (from Nizam-ul-Mulk - Administrator of the Realm [1]) from 1724 to September 1948 when it was forcibly integrated into the Indian Union and the Nizam deposed.

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: immediately to the capital's north lay Secunderabad, a city in its own right and a military cantonment under direct British rule. Collectively, the two were often referred to as the 'Twin Cities'.

There were also other military cantonment under direct British rule. Records of baptisms, marriages and burials which occurred in the cantonments under British rule, will be found in the usual sources. At least for some periods these cantonments were regarded as part of the Madras Presidency.

Records

British Library Records

  • Baptisms,Marriages and Burials - Indian (Princely) States 1890-1946, N/5. These records are available on the pay website findmypast and are thought also to be available on the free FamilySearch website (noting you are required to be signed in to FS).
  • Histories of Service, 1879-1903 - V/12/429-33
  • Civil Lists, 1875-1903 - V/13/1225-32

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, UIN: BLL01001781826, and also in an Indian reprint edition. [2]

Cemeteries

Hyderabad and Secunderabad cemetery names have changed over time as detailed below.[3]

LDS Microfilms

A keyword search in the LDS Library Catalogue for Hyderabad shows entries.

Related articles

Hyderabad Contingent

External links

Maps

Historical books online

"More Monumental Inscriptions-V", Nos. 1030-1115 by Capt. H Bullock pages 124-129 Bengal, Past and Present Volume 45 April-June 1933 Archive.org/DLI. Includes Hingoli, Hyderabad State. Archive.org/DLI
"Reprinting Deccan heritage" The Hindu, Jan 14, 2010, now archived, talks about the reprint of the above book which is also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007259846 .

References

  1. ↑ "Nizam", Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Department of Heritage Telangana reprint includes a description of the content, the latter an archived page.
  3. ↑ Johnson, Ronnie. New Names of Cemeteries in Secunderabad Rootsweb Mailing List 7 November 2009, archived and Edwards, Kerry. New Names of Cemeteries in Secunderabad Rootsweb Mailing List 8 November 2009, archived. Includes Hyderabad Cemeteries.

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