Hyderabad State

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 ) 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 Local Officers of the Nizam's Army, 1807-1853 by Humphry Bullock. Second edition, printed for the subscribers: Rawalpindi, 1938. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000527926.
• 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.

Cemeteries

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

LDS Microfilms

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

Related articles

Hyderabad Contingent

External links

Maps

• Hyderbad State map Imperial Gazetteer of India Vol 26 Atlas 1909

Historical books online

• Inscriptions from some old tombs in Hyderabad State from Inscriptions on Tombs or monuments in Madras by J J Cotton 1905 archive.org
• 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. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• 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 Aurangabad 1884 Published under the orders of His Highness the Nizam’s Government. Archive.org
  • Gazetteer of the Nizam’s Dominion-Aurangabad District originally published 1884, Gazetteers Department of the Govt of Maharashtra (archived)
• Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal by Sir Richard Temple 1887. Volume I HathiTrust Digital Library; Volume II Archive.org
• 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 "H. H. The Nizam's Army" page 96

"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 .

• British Enactments in Force in Native States: Southern India (Hyderabad) by J M Macpherson 2nd edition 1900. Archive.org
• Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series Hyderabad State 1909 Archive,org
• Modern Hyderabad by John Law 1914 Archive.org
• "Report on the Hyderabad Medical School" Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department] No. XXXIV 1861 Google Books.
• Pictorial Hyderabad Volume I by K.Krishnaswamy Mudiraj 1929 Archive.org. Images are generally unfortunately of a low standard. 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 computer page 170 Archive.org
  • 1936 Hyderabad Directory Contents, digital page 5; Who's Who, digital page 226; Lawyers, digital page 282 Doctors, page 291 Archive.org.
    • "Deccan District British Forces" page 99
  • 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.