Seminar on “Importance of Book reading among the younger generation” 26th December

Information source: Siasat News, December 24

Hyderabad:

(Siasat New) Centre for Trilingual and Islamic Studies will organize a Seminar on “Importance of Book reading among the younger generation” at Urdu Ghar, Moghalpura on Thursday 26th December at 10 am. Prof. S.A. Shukoor, Director of Urdu Academy, Dr. P.H. Mohammed, Asst. Professor of MANUU, Syed Shah Habeebuddin Quadri, Editor Andhra Pradesh Urdu monthly, Dr. Ghouse Ali Sayeed, Mr. Taher Romani, Journalist, Ms. Munawar Khatoon, Director of Ashraful Madaris High School, Mr. Mohammed Qamaruddin, Senior Librarian, Mr. Syed Faheem Akther, Librarian, Mr. Mohammed Ilyas Taher, Director Dream Bird school, Mr. Mohammed Shamsuddin Ahmed Khan, President Minorities Education and Welfare Society, Mr. Mohammed Habeebuddin, Mr. Mohsin Khan, Mr. Ayoub Khan and others will participate in the seminar. Mr. Mohammed Aqeel, Advocate will be the convener. Prizes and certificates will be distributed to the students on this occasion.
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Gulf jobs prove death for expats, hailing from south India, especially Kerala and Andhra Pradesh

Gulf jobs prove death for migrants, Times of India-by Bushra Baseerat

HYDERABAD: Dream jobs in the Gulf countries are turning into nightmares for thousands of Indian expatriates. In an alarming scenario, two Indians commit suicide every week on an average in the gulf region. Moreover, several others are dying at a young age due to heart attacks or other ailments. With a chunk of these migrants hailing from south India, especially Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, experts say it is high time the government intervenes and determines the cause of these telling statistics. continue reading Times of India

 On the same shelf:

• Andhra Pradesh website to help NRIs return home and find jobs Arab News
• Competing with foreigners for jobs 'difficult'-- gulfnews.com-Dec 4, 2013
The kingdom, unlike other Gulf nations, has millions of low-income citizens willing to work the types of jobs that have long been held by Indian, Egyptian,
• Saudis Look to Private Businesses for Youth Jobs  The New Indian Express -- A nationwide culling of Saudi Arabia's massive foreign workforce of around 9 million people has already sent hundreds of thousands of migrants home in the past two months. Saudi authorities say the jobs left behind can and should be given to Saudis.
• New Saudi rules forced exit of 1,41301 Indian workers Indlaw.com
• Nitaqat: Saudi returnees tell tales of their agony The New Indian Express 
• Expat held with gold in Hyderabad Times of Oman
• Saudi to hire 3500 expat doctors ArabianBusiness.com -- According to English language newspaper Arab News, the Ministry of Health is seeking to hire doctors and nurses from countries including India, Pakistan and  
• An expatriate sounds off, Saudi Gazette : "My recent column on the plight of long-term residents of the Kingdom, many born here and grown accustomed to a Saudi way of life, prompted a reader to send me the following response which I have edited for space:"

“Every day I read in the newspapers articles spewing hatred with unrestrained venom. Illegals/Expats: A threat to national security’’, ‘’Expatriate remittances costing Kingdom billions’’, ‘’Expatriates taking jobs away from Saudi workforce" are just some of the many popular lines that I find in the print media that make expatriates look like a disease when you know that this an absolute falsehood. How are we a threat to national security when we aren’t even recognized as one of Saudi’s own? continue reading saudigazette.com.sa

28th Hyderabad book fair, 2013

NTR Stadium hosted the event organised by the
National Book Trust in coordination with Hyderabad Book Fair Society,
from December 7 to 15,2013.

See also:

• http://hyderabadbookfair.com/
• The shelves are full TOI
• The book lovers’ delight is here, thehindu.com
• A comment: Mohammed Ayub Ali Khan
• 15th North East Book Fair from Dec 25. Assam Times

Temple Desecration and Muslim States in Medieval India (The case of Golconda as an instance)

Temple Desecration and Muslim States in Medieval India 

Book Description: Hope India Publications. Few issues in India?s current public discourse are more controversial than that of the political status of religious monuments. In particular, the destruction of the Babri Masjid in 1992 raised a number of urgent questions relating to the desecration of temples in India?s medieval period.Some of those questions that are historical in nature are addressed in this monograph: What temples were in fact desecrated in medieval India? When and by whom? How and for what purpose? What role did the desecration of temples play in the legitimization or delegitimization of royal power in medieval India?

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Early Instances of Temple Desecration
3. Sufism and State Building
4. Temple Desecration and State Building
5. Temple Protection and State Maintenance
6. Temple Desecration and State Maintenance
7. Temples and Mosques Contrasted
8. Temple Desecration and the Rhetoric of State Building
9. Conclusion

Extract (from frontline.in):

... Similarly, in 1579, when Golconda's army led by Murahari Rao was campaigning south of the Krishna River, Rao annexed the entire region to Qutb Shahi domains and sacked the popular Ahobilam temple, whose ruby-studded image he brought back to Golconda and presented to his sultan as a war trophy (no. 51). Although the Ahobilam temple had only local appeal, it had close associations with prior sovereign authority since it had been patronised and even visited by the powerful and most famous king of Vijayanag ara, Krishnadevaraya. The temple's political significance, and hence the necessity of desecrating it, would have been well understood by Murahari Rao, himself a Marathi Brahmin.²²

In each of these instances, the deity's image, taken as war trophy to the capital city of the victorious sultan, became radically detached from its former context and in the process was transformed from a living to a dead image. However, sacked images were not invariably abducted to the victor's capital. In 1556, the Gajapati raja of Orissa had entered into a pact with the Mughal emperor Akbar, the distant adversary of the sultan of Bengal, Sulaiman Karrani. The raja had also given refuge to Sulaiman's more proximate adversary, Ibrahim Sur, and offered to assist the latter in his ambitions to conquer Bengal and overthrow the Karrani dynasty. As Sulaiman could hardly have tolerated such threats to his stability, he sent an army into Orissa which went st raight to the Gajapati kingdom's state temple of Jagannath and looted its images. But here the goal was not annexation but only punishment, which might explain why the Gajapati state images were not carried back to the Bengali capital as trophies of war. ²³  

Continue reading: Temple desecration in pre-modern India - Frontline

See also:

• Religious Tolerance in World Religions  Jacob Neusner
• Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states - Columbia University
• Temple desecration in pre-modern India - Hindu

Deccan Chronicle's News" Actor Paul Walker dies in crash

PS. News is not always News/Trusted. It may be an hoax, always confirm with some authentic source!!!

Hoax-Slayer

Fast & Furious star Paul Walker's death has been confirmed. -- On a related note, a website claiming his death is a hoax is actually a satire site.
http://newsone.com/2796282/paul-walker-fast-and-furious-dead/ 

Noorani's THE DESTRUCTION OF HYDERABAD -- Book Release

THE DESTRUCTION OF HYDERABAD

A. G. Noorani

 

Challenges the official narrative to demonstrate how Hyderabad was forcibly annexed to India against its will.

• Overview

The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the ‘court historians’ of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army’s ‘police action’ against the armed forces and government of Hyderabad, ruled by the fabulously wealthy Nizam. His forensic scrutiny of the diplomatic exchanges between the Govt of India and the Govt of Hyderabad during the Raj and after Partition and Independence in 1947 has unearthed the Sunderlal Committee report on the massacre of the Muslim population of the State during and after the ‘police action’ (knowledge of which has since been suppressed by the Indian state) and a wealth of memoirs and first-hand accounts of the clandestine workings of territorial nationalism in its bleakest and most shameful hour. He brings to light the largely ignored and fateful intervention of M. A. Jinnah in the destruction of Hyderabad and also accounts for the communal leanings of Patel and K. M. Munshi in shaping its fate. The book is dedicated to the ‘other’ Hyderabad: a culturally syncretic state that was erased in the stampede to create a united India committed to secularism and development

Hyderabad, Kashmir victims of Partition ‘transaction’:

‘Jinnah opposed Mountbatten’s plebiscite offer on princely JK’

GK NEWS NETWORK

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Hyderabad, Nov 29: Drawing a parallel between Kashmir and Hyderabad, noted author and political commentator AG Noorani Friday said the two were part of the same ‘transaction’ of the partition of India in 1947.
“Both these states were the victims of ill decisions taken by the powers at that time,” he said, speaking at the launch of his book titled “The Destruction of Hyderabad.” It is part of a series of his books on the partition. His two-volume “Kashmir Dispute” was released earlier this year in Srinagar. continue reading GK NEWS NETWORK

On the same shelf:  

• Sardar Patel hated Hyderabadi culture: AG Noorani    
• Revealing the other side of the story  The Hindu
• Patel's communalism—a documented record Frontline  
• Where does Nizam's city belong?  
• See also the destruction of Hyderabad in this fiction: Bright Horizons by Wilson Harp

Between Tradition and Modernity: Nizams, Colonialism and Modernity...

SPECIAL ARTICLE november 30, 2013 vol xlviiI no 48 Economic & PoliticalWeekly, by Bhangya Bhukya 
[An earlier version of this article was presented as the keynote address to a seminar on “Socio-Economic and Cultural Contribution of Mir Osman Ali Khan”, Nizam VII, organised by the Nizam Museum in September 2011, Hyderabad. Bhangya Bhukya  is at the Department of Social Exclusion Studies, the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad. Between Tradition and Modernity Nizams, Colonialism and Modernity in Hyderabad State]

"Nizam’s well acclaimed farman issued in 1933:
I do not wish that I should wound the feelings of any community or religion through short-sightedness or that I should so immerse myself in my religion that it might be called “Bigotry”. In short, my policy and that of my predecessors has been not only to look upon all religions of the world equally without discrimination or difference…But also to earn a good name by behaving in harmony with all like milk and sugar." Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan , the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1933.

Info courtesy: Mohammed Ayub Ali Khan

Deccan Chronicle partners with 11th edition of 10K run

DC | 30th Oct 2013

Hyderabad: Deccan Chronicle, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is partnering with another Hyderabadi tradition — the 10K run. 

To be held on November 24, this time the 10K Run is back with a bigger, better and a greener running experience.

It started with 6,000 runners in 2003 and participation has gone up almost threefold in the last 10 years. Organised by the Hyderabad 10K Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, the run is aimed at promoting sports, fitness and health.

Extracted at Facebook from DC:

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Knowing more languages delays dementia - NAI BOLE TO SUNTE NAI

Although Hyderabad is not the language capital of India (nor like Delhi, Mumbai a salad bowl), yet the Hyderabadi-Urdu  and; Hyderabadi-Telugu gave the city a distinct place as a composite culture. And today the area is linguistically known as Telangana, with its own Telengana dialect (source). Example of the current Urdu and Telugu spoken in Hyderabad:

hyderabadi urdu (baigan me milgaya, nakko yaaro, boleto suno miya, kiraak, etc,) and hyderabadi telugu (em anna samajhainda ne, arrrrrrey pareshaani cheyyaku, nuvvu gatla bhi koshish chesinava, etc.) (source)

 "If there is one word that can be used to describe the culture in Hyderabad, it is ‘diverse’." (source) History of Hyderabad has always been bi-lingual (some would say it was mostly multi-lingual, based on what was obvious with the division of Hyderabad State, post 1947). Officially Persian was the official language up to 1893 and then Urdu up to 1948 (source). Telugu and Urdu are/were the principal languages spoken in Hyderabad (source).

"In Language there is a spice of spelling," said Geoffrey Grigson in The Private Art. [quoted in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) (p. 164)] This statement is probably very true about the effect of Hyderabadi spices in spelling, as seen above.

 The current news is about the bi-lingual sample of Hyderabad population:

In the News:

More Evidence Bilingualism Delays Dementia 

Medscape-Nov 7, 2013 "We chose Hyderabad, in India, as it has large numbers of both monolingual and bilingual people, and it is a native population with few ..

'Knowing more languages delays dementia' Bushra Baseerat, TNN

Dementia is a progressive brain disease that causes memory loss, severe intellectual decline and behavioural disturbances in people aged over 60 years

Nai bole toh suntey nai.....Hyderabadi Shayri..... - YouTube

 

Dear Hyderabadi mian, this is for you: Why a (Hyderabadi) man’s place is in the kitchen (chulley meinch hi)

Why a man’s place is in the kitchen

Cooking is a metaphor for the gender divide that gives the Indian male primacy at home, Livemint

Extract:
“Men really have very big egos sir, how to get them (sic) to cook or help at home?”
... But, sometimes, I scratch my head when I have conversations of the type I had in Hyderabad, a heaving city where the middle and upper classes are notorious for the size of the dowries they demand for their sons and the domestic expectations they make of their daughters-in-law....
... My argument is—as it always has been—that at the heart of this disgrace is the belief instilled in the Indian male from childhood that he has no place in the kitchen, that he is the provider and must be cooked for and looked after. Continue reading.

On the same shelf:

• Dear Hyderabadi Man, THE TIMES OF INDIA 

The Legend of Bhagmati — Fact or Fiction, by Mohammed Safiullah

Bhagmati’s place in Hyderabad’s history debated, deccanchronicle.com

Retired IAS officer Bawa interacts with heritage enthusiast Mohd. Safiullah who gave a presentation, Bhagmati — Fact or Fiction at the Salar Jung Museum on Saturday. — DC

Extract: ... He pointed out to the fact that there are no manuscripts, inscriptions and miniature artworks depicting Bhagmati. In fact, there isn’t even a marked grave. Therefore, she is more the product of fiction than fact. ... However, other historians did not agree. They said the evidences that Safiullah quotes are not accurate.

However P. Jogi Naidu, the retired deputy director of the department of archeology, said, “Bhagmati's tomb is located in Talab Katta, on the eastern side of Charminar. The then Chichdam village (now known as Shah Ali Banda) was an important area of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and it was Bhagmati’s birth place. Some people have removed all the inscription written on the tomb and do not allow visitors to view the grave. The Deccan School of Art from 1750 onwards represented her miniatures and painting and also depicted the events during that era.” continue reading

On the same shelf:

• Metro Rails’ mischief- Hyderabad named as Bhagya Nagar, Siasat 

  Hyderabad, November 09: Metro Rail project officials have very treacherously inscribe “Hyderabad Metro Rail- a new face of Bhagyanagar” on its website. It only shows the communal mentality of the officials of Metro Rail project. The so-called intellectuals are bent upon declaring Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. They claim that Bhagmati was the beloved of Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah, Founder of Hyderabad City but it is only a fiction which has no relevance with reality.

  The fact is that Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah named this city after Hazrath Ali, to express his devotion for Hazrath Ali who was also called Hyder-e-Karrar. Hyder Mahal was the wife of Quli Qutub Shah and the mother of Hayath Bakhshi Begum. In those days, there used to be many Baghats (Gardens) and therefore the city was called Bagh-e-nagar which after distortion becomes Bhagyanagar. Those who talk of the legendary love story of Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah and Bhagmathi should know that Purana Pal was constructed in 1578 and at that time, the age of Quli Qutub Shah was only 9 years. The story of Bhagmati is imaginary. Had she been the member of the Royal family, a coin could have been minted on her name or a tomb would have constructed but nothing has happened. It is for the citizens of Hyderabad to ask the Managing Director of Metro Rail Project, Mr. N.V.S. Reddy that how did he give place to this mischievous slogan on the official website of Metro Rail Project. continue reading

• Hyderabad, Musi river and a love story, DC

Rædleafpoetry India (RLP) Award @ Hyderabad, November 16, 2013

"The city is preparing itself to unveil the first Raed Leaf Poetry-India Awards for 2013 scheduled for November 16." Indian Express

• RaedLeaf Poetry: Preach, Preserve, Promote Poetry

 In the news:

• Clipping of The New Indian Express-Hyderabad, 04-11-2013 :readwhere Burnishing a diminishing diamond, By Swati Sharma

Bangalore-Hyderabad volvo bus tragedy - list of travellers

• List of the travellers of the bangalore-hyderabad volvo bus. Share this info friends..might help

• Bangalore-Hyderabad bus tragedy: Driver, travel company owner arrested Daiji World   Oct 31 11:29am

• Bus tragedy: Kin of two techies claim same body 
• Mishaps stir RTA, but not for long, DC | 01st Nov 2013

• 45 passengers burnt alive as bus catches fire 

  INDOlink   Oct 30 11:33pm
• Andhra bus tragedy: Police to conduct DNA tests for identifying deadThe Times of India   Oct 30 06:41am
• Transport Department wakes up to passenger safety The New Indian Express-1 hour ago

• Volvo rules out fuel tank explosion Times of India-by Nikhila Henry

• Driver called boss seconds before fire The New Indian Express-Oct 30, 2013
• Six software engineers among bus fire victims Indian Express-Oct 30, 2013

Day and Night in Hyderabad - News update

• Amazon campus in Hyderabad soon, Google likely to follow
• Islamic Art Gallery inaugurated at JNTU by Mr. Zahid Ali Khan, Siasat, 30 October 2013, ---The Siasat Daily is presenting ‘Islamic Art’ exhibition of Paintings by Mohammed Younus, at Nehru Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, JNTU-FAC, Masab Tank here from October 31 to November 4, 2013. Editor of The Siasat Daily Zahid Ali Khan, will inaugurate the exhibition at 4.30 pm on October 31. The Exhibition will be open from 11 am to 7 pm till November 4. (NSS) 
• Heritage building fire destroys government press Siasat
• Baroda Maharaja settles £3 billion inheritance feud,  -- The Baroda royals were regarded as one of India's five most important families – the Gaekwads, along with the Nizam of Hyderabad Maharajas of Jammu and Kashmir, Gwalior, and Mysore, were the only rulers given a 21 gun salute during the British Raj.   
• Hyderabad Habitat Centre to come up at Khanamet  
• Microsoft names new MD for its India R&D operations -- Hyderabad: Microsoft Corp. has appointed Anil Bhansali as managing director of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd, one of the operating system ...

First Rolls Royce car in Hyderabad India

"One of the first Rolls Royce in India – the Nizam of Hyderabad’s 1912 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Throne car – has been restored to its original glory. : http://www.carsuk.net/ In 1911 the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad – Mehboob Ali Khan - ordered a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, and had it sent off to Bakers of Edinburgh to create a very special body, fit for Nizam (think Maharajah, the generic term for Indian Royalty)." continue reading  http://www.carsuk.net/

Must Watch if u r a hyderabadi : Unknown Facts About HYDERABAD!!!

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Deloitte cancelled the participation of Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan

No Guv at Deloitte fete

http://www.deccanchronicle.com | N. Vamsi Srinivas |

Extract:

Hyderabad: Multinational company Deloitte cancelled the participation of Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan in a programme scheduled for Tuesday as the protocol required playing the National Anthem twice while the company wanted it only once.Tuesday’s programme was to be the inauguration of the Deloitte Centre for Leadership Inclusion, aimed at giving due share to women, the Armed Forces and the differentlyabled.
Official sources said that Deloitte senior officials Hari Karra and Nagarajan had approached Raj Bhavan with a request to invite Narasimhan for the programme at their office premises in Mindspace.The Governor had accepted and Raj Bhavan protocol officials had handed over to the company representatives the protocol sheet, which includes the details of dos and don’ts for programmes attended by the Governor, a Constitutional head of the state. “It is a standard procedure and organisers have to follow it,” top official sources said. continue reading:  No Guv at Deloitte fete

Local office: 

Deloitte |  Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Google to launch Street View for Indian monuments tomorrow, BGR India

By: Rajat Agrawal| Oct 2nd, 2013 BGR India

Extract: Google will officially launch Street View in India tomorrow albeit with a caveat. Instead of launching Street View of regular roads and localities, it will be limited to 100 monuments in India that people will be able to visit virtually from their PCs. Earlier in July, we had reported about Google’s Street View team hitting the Charminar in Hyderabad.

Image from google-street-view.com:




Much more:

• http://google-street-view.com/view-google-street-views-on-a-map/
  
• Google Street View team lands in India to climb atop the Charminar

Hyderabad State's 1948 Police Action In Literary Narratives

• From Nizam To Nation: The Representation of Partition in Literary Narratives About Hyderabad, Deccan, by Nazia Akhtar (Graduate Program in Comparative Literature A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy), The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. 2013. 

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• October Coup: A Memoir of the Struggle for Hyderabad
  Mohammed Hyder
• Memoirs of Hyderabad freedom struggle.
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The secular nationalism of Urdu --Hyderabad and Osmania University's role

The secular nationalism of Urdu:  Kavita Saraswathi Datla’s The Language of Secular Islam reviewed by A. Faizur Rahman, The Hindu 30 Sept 2013

Extract:"For Osmania University was neither a communal nor theological project despite the fact that it did have a faculty of Theology. According to statistics provided by Datla, by 1935 there were 1,806 students in the Osmania system: 771 in arts, 731 in sciences, 102 in medicine, 97 in law, 47 in engineering, 26 in education and only 32 in theology. In other words, theology was not a popular course a fact that indicates Muslim eagerness to be part of the secular mainstream. 

It is Datla’s case that such a tendency was encouraged by the Osmania University. She highlights two specific projects that were commissioned by the University which emphasised the highlighting the secular achievements of a Muslim past that would serve India well. They were, Taarikh-e-Hind (The History of India) by Sayyid Hashmi Faridabadi and Taarikh-e-Islam (The History of Islam) by Abdul Halim Sharar. These two histories, writes Datla, “claim space for Muslims within national and global narratives by asserting the importance of Muslims to the larger themes and imperatives of history and development.” “What Sharar and Faridabadi hoped ultimately to demonstrate was the compatibility of national and Islamic goals.” 

...The book also contains an extensive discussion on student politics in Osmania University, particularly the controversy surrounding the singing of Vande Mataram. She refuses to accept that this imbroglio was part of the freedom struggle in Hyderabad, or proof of anti-Hindu policies of the Nizam. She recounts how when (in November 1938) some students started singing the Vande Mataram in their hostel prayer rooms they were asked not to sing because the song, given its “political and controversial nature”, had the potential to hurt the feelings of non-Hindus. 

Not surprisingly, this was sought to be exploited by the Hyderabad State Congress and the Hindu Mahasabha. This, despite the fact that the striking students did not define their agitation in communal terms."  Continue reading The Hindu

About the book:

During the turbulent period prior to colonial India’s partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of secular education introduced to South Asia by the British, Indian academics launched a spirited debate about the reform of Islamic education, the importance of education in the spoken languages of the country, the shape of Urdu and its past, and the significance of the histories of Islam and India for their present.

The Language of Secular Islam pursues an alternative account of the political disagreements between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, conflicts too often described as the product of primordial and unchanging attachments to religion. The author suggests that the political struggles of India in the 1930s, the very decade in which the demand for Pakistan began to be articulated, should not be understood as the product of an inadequate or incomplete secularism, but as the clashing of competing secular agendas. Her work explores negotiations over language, education, and religion at Osmania University, the first university in India to use a modern Indian language (Urdu) as its medium of instruction, and sheds light on questions of colonial displacement and national belonging.

Grounded in close attention to historical evidence, The Language of Secular Islam has broad ramifications for some of the most difficult issues currently debated in the humanities and social sciences: the significance and legacies of European colonialism, the inclusions and exclusions enacted by nationalist projects, the place of minorities in the forging of nationalism, and the relationship between religion and modern politics. It will be of interest to historians of colonial India, scholars of Islam, and anyone who follows the politics of Urdu. Source: University Of Hawai'i Press.

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 

On the same shelf:

• “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

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• 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

• A GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE in HYDERABAD ... - MIT Libraries

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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
• Hyderabad: After the Fall (HHS Monograph Series, No 4)
  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)
  Omar Khalidi
• 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