Armenian cemetery of Hyderabad, Photos by Dr. Omar Khalidi

 

•  The photos are cited in Chater Genealogy,  Researching Armenians in India from 1600 to present day --  The deserted Armenian cemetery of Hyderabad. Some transcriptions of Armenian graves at Haiderabad between 1645 and 1807 and photographs of the Armenian cemetery at Hydrabad courtesy of Prof. Omar Khalidi and Mr. Leon Avedissian to whom I offer my thanks. By Liz Chater 

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• “Armenian Diaspora in India: The Case of the Deccan,” by Omar Khalidi Islamic Culture LXXI, no. 2 (April 1997): 77-88.
• “Armenians in Mughal Delhi,” by Omar Khalidi Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies 15 (2006): 147-157.
• Historic Armenian cemetery in Hyderabad buried under waste, By Bhargav Nimmagadda, Azad-Hye

• "Three Centuries Of Armenian Heritage India" To Be Presented In ...

• Mumbai Multiplex | Living arrangements of the dead: The city’s story through a graveyard where Armenians and Baha’is lie next to each other—an excerpt from a new book. By Naresh Fernandes

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Meet Hyderabad-born Prem Watsa, the man who is buying BlackBerry @ IBN Live

Extract:

Watsa, born in 1950 in Hyderabad, India, and trained as a chemical engineer, has a public profile that has at times bordered on the reclusive since he took over Fairfax in 1985. For his first 15 years at the company, he barely spoke to a reporter, and he only started holding investor conference calls in 2001.

Fairfax has generally not been known as an activist investor, but Watsa has not shied away from a fight, launching a $6 billion lawsuit against a group of hedge funds in 2006, accusing them of conspiring to the drive the company's shares down so they could be shorted.

A short position enables an investor to profit when a stock drops.

To be sure, not all Watsa's moves have been golden. Fairfax had to write off most of its investment in Winnipeg-based media company Canwest in 2009 as the company filed for bankruptcy protection. It also wrote down a significant investment in publisher Torstar in 2008-09. Speaking last year, Watsa suggested investors looking for a short-term rebound in BlackBerry might be disappointed.

"Is it going to turn around in three months, six months, nine months? No," he told reporters. "But if you're looking four, five years ... We make investments over four or five years." Read more at: IBN Live

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Debt-ridden Deccan Chronicle goes to BIFR

SUMMARY

Deccan Chronicle Holdings (DCHL) has approached the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) seeking a bailout under the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act of 1985, reports fe Bureau in Hyderabad ... 

Continue reading Financial Express · 2013-09-18

The real story of 'Police Action' against Nizam in 1948 -- Revisiting Hyderabad Liberation Day on 17 September

This post is continuously updated, last updated 29 Sept, 2013

•  Ghosts of police action resurface, Mir Ayoob Ali Khan The Times of India
• An Alig's Armchair: The So Called Hyderabad Police Action of 1948

T S Sudhir | India Today | Hyderabad, September 10, 2013

It is one of the best-kept secrets in the annals of Indian history.

What exactly happened in Hyderabad on and after 17 September 1948 when the might of the Indian Army forced the Nizam of Hyderabad to surrender and merge his kingdom with the Indian Union, 13 months after India had become an independent country?

The day is celebrated every year by the votaries of Telangana -- that is pretty much the old Hyderabad state geographically, barring districts that became part of present-day Maharashtra and Karnataka -- as Hyderabad Liberation Day.

Except that if they knew the bloodshed that took place then, they would realise there isn't much to celebrate about.

After reports that the Nizam's Army was committing atrocities on innocent civilians, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel decided enough was enough and ordered the Army into Hyderabad.

Though its technical names were "Operation Polo" and "Operation Caterpillar", it was more commonly referred to as "Police Action".

Read more at: India Today

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• Hyderabad 1948: India's hidden massacre, By Mike Thomson BBC
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  Omar Khalidi
• The British Residents at the court of the Nizams of Hyderabad (Monograph series)
  Omar Khalidi 
•  Pandit Sunderlal Report --info courtesy, Mohammed Ayub Ali Khan 
• Operation Polo: The police action against Hyderabad, 1948 (Armed Forces of the Indian Union)
  Sri Nandan Prasad
• The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict
  Sudhir Kakar
• Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India
  Ashutosh Varshney
• India's police action against Hyderabad
  V Veerabhadra Rao
• Kingship and Colonialism in India's Deccan: 1850-1948
  Benjamin B. Cohen
• Islamic literature in the Deccani languages: Kannada, Marathi & Telugu (Monographic series / Hyderabad Historical Society)
  Omar Khalidi
• State Violence and Punishment in India (Royal Asiatic Society Books)
  Taylor C. Sherman
• Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation. Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot (Eds)
  Laurent Gayer
• The Shiites
• A Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era
  Daniel P. Marston
  David Pinault
• Romance of the Golconda Diamonds
  Omar Khalidi
• Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India: Army, Police and Paramilitary Forces During Communal Riots
  Omar Khalidi
• Indian Muslims Since Independence
  Omar Khalidi
• An Indian Passage to Europe: The Travels of Fath Nawaz Jang (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)
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• Dakan (Monograph series / Haydarabad Historical Society)
  Omar Khalidi
• The British Residency in Hyderabad: An Outpost of the Raj: 1779-1948
  Omar Khalidi
• The Last Nizam - The Rise and Fall of India's Greatest Princely State
  John Zubrzycki
• White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
  William Dalrymple

Hyderabad Hub of Educational/Visa Fraud - Beware of fake educational academies

• Hyderabad hub of US visa fraud,  Deccan Chronicle | Coreena Suares  -- Extract: "According to fresh data, Hyderabad is fast emerging as US visa fraud hub, particularly as the centre of large-scale documentation fraud, which affects visa processing across the country.
  Also, dozens of fraud American visa websites have shot up in recent times. The Consulate General of the United States in Hyderabad has now sent out alerts warning people against such centres and has requested all payments to be made on www.ustraveldocs.com — the official website.
  It has also been revealed that fraud “consultancies” charge applicants somewhere between Rs 1 lakh or more and are even equipped with fake rubber stamps of various nationalised banks, fake bank statements, reports from chartered accountants, official letter heads, company registration certificates and fake stamps of government and non-government officials." continue reading
• Beware of education consultancies | Canada Updates  by Michelle S -- Extract: "Misuse of US student visas—Education consultancies under fire—As many as 11 education consultancies in Hyderabad, India are being probed for their alleged role in sending Indians on US student visas to work there unlawfully." continue reading.
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• APS Board Candidate, Steven Lee, Touted Diploma Mill PhD --  Atlanta Progressive News-Aug 8, 2013, "Belford University is a diploma mill that--prior to its closure in 2012--offered online, nonaccredited college degrees, for a fee of several hundred ..."
• Belford University (Varies) Accreditation Scam | Diploma Mill Police ... [Belford University which is not in Texas, rather a fake university facing million dollar penalty for its irregular activities]
• Hot Scams – Belford University Degree and Diploma Scam Busted

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