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To spend
time in Hyderabad is to relive an age gone by .Hyderabad
is much more than a picture post card setting. A city of
subtle contrasts everyway you look at it. It is here
that orient and the occident meet, the pre-modern and
the modern co-mingle, palatial buildings and slums
co-exists. In this history page we bring you every month
a historical place of Hyderabad. In our maiden issue we
start off with Hyderabad--The city where east meets west
in Indian cultures.
Hyderabad is
an important center for Islamic culture and is a central
Indian counter part of Munhall splendors of
Delhi,Agraand Fatehpur Sikri of North India. |
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Consisting of twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad
, it is the capital of Andhra Pradesh. It is famous for
being seat of the wealthy Nizams of Hyderabad.
The foundations were laid in the year 1589 by the fifth
sultan of Golconda, Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah who had a
torrid romance with a Banjara woman named Bhagmati,
after whom the city was first named as Bhagya Nagar.
Later to perpetuate his wife's memory, he enlarged the
fort city of Golconda and bestowed on her the title "Haider
Mahal". The city later came to be known as Hyderabad.
The metropolis was once surrounded by stone walls. A
large portion of it was washed away in 1908 floods. The
city, at first, had 13 gates . Now excepting for few
like puranapul Darwaza and Dabeerpura Darwaza, the rest
have vanished.
Besides the fabled mansions and the Salar Jung Museum ,
Hyderabad has several stately mansions and public
buildings built in the indo-Sara conic style.
The landmark of the past stand in the ageing glory,
silent sentinels of the emerging concrete jungle. The
flux of time has left its mark on every facet of life.
There is a distinct change in the life style of the
people. The yuppie culture and the western haute culture
are in. rest traditional outfits are out!!! The Muslim
ethos, so characteristics of Hyderabad has given way to
the Andhra culture and the deccan Urdu has been replaced
by telugu. |
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