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The title of the blog is inspired by China Miéville's wonderful book of the same name. Like Besźel/Ul Qoma, Hyderabad too has a dichotomy that defies explanation sometimes.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.- The header image is "Tombs of the Kings of Golconda" (1813) by Robert Melville Grindlay. From The British Library's Online Gallery.
Tag Archives: Madras
Why? Why not?
In the interesting-facts-behind-a-Navneet-notebook style, a teaser for the sort of thing you can expect from this blog: Madras was under (sort of) Hyderabadi rule for a while in the 17th century. Take that, CSK! Mir Osman Ali Khan’s parsimonious ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhagmati, Chennai, History, Hyderabad, Ibrahim Qutb Shah, Madras, Miscellaneous, Nizam, Qutb Shahis
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