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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]].
Expansion of Nizam + various typos
'''Hyderabad State''', also referred to as the '''Nizam's Dominions''' , was the largest of the [[Princely states]]. Not formally a part of [[British India]], it the mainly Hindu state was ruled by a series of hereditary Muslim princes called 'Nizam ' (a hereditary positionfrom Nizam-ul-Mulk - Administrator of the Realm <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizam "Nizam"], Wikipedia</ref>) from 1724 to September 1948when 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'.
==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 published under the authority of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Govt., 1941. Available at the [[British Library]].<br> This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-11/1257628536 thread] gives the names of the cemeteries in 1939, probably taken from the previous bookabove.
===LDS Microfilms===
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]
== References ==
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==External links==
===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]
*''Our Faithful Ally The Nizam'' by Captain Hastings Fraser 1865 [http://books.google.com/books?id=58IBAAAAMAAJ 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
*[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
===Other===
*[http://www.hinduonnet.com/mp/2010/01/14/stories/2010011450030100.htm "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.
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