Deccan Chronicles: The Seven Nizams (and one Diwan) of Hyderabad
Falaknuma Palace was acquired by Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad and a man with a taste for expensive things
When you are the smartest man in the durbar, but own no lands or titles, you make it your mission to get both. Qamar-ud-din Khan was six years old when Mughal emperor Aurangzeb took him under his wing. He went on to become the first Nizam of the Deccan, amass one of the largest fortunes in the world and found a dynasty that lasted seven generations. You can say that he learned from the best.
The Nizams, though, weren’t the first to set their hearts on Hyderabad. Founded by the Qutb Shahi king Muhammad Quli in , Hyderabad was a response to a water shortage in Golconda. By the s, however, Aurangzeb was at the height of his powers, and he captured Bijapur and Golconda within a year. After his death in , as his successors pursued fratricide and the sultanate became headless, Qamar-ud-din took charge of the south. According to historian Yusuf Husain, who wrote his biography The First Nizam (), he was the head of the executive and judicial departments, ruling as “an absolute monarch,” whi
Junaid has sent this classic ghazal by one of the earlier, eclectic poets of Urdu language, Siraj Aurangabadi. The best part of his email is the translation by his relative &#; a Toronto based poet &#; Anis Zuberi. The translation is amazing as it delves into the deeper meanings of this great ghazal.
Anis Zuberi writes:
It is hard to translate classical poets. This ghazal of Siraj is like a flower, full of beauty and fragrance that one should smell and enjoy and not dissect. &#;Siraj Aurangabadi was one of the earlier poets of Urdu who came after Wali Dukkani. According to his biography for years, he was in a state of trance and used to remain naked. Khabar e-tahayyur-e-ishq is one of the his most famous Ghazals.
Khabar-e-tahayyur-e-ishq sunn, na junoon raha na pari rahi
Na toh tu raha na toh mein raha, jo rahi so be-khabari rahi
Learn oh absorbing love that neither the obsession (for the beloved) is left nor and the object (pari) of love survived. The only thing that is left is a state of self-unconsciousness: where neither you exist nor I exist.
Shah-e-bekhudi ne ataa kia, mujhay ab libas-e-barahanagi
Na khirad ki bakhiyagari rahi, na junoon ki pardadari rahi
My
Siraj Aurangabadi (&#;) was a famous mystic poet. He was born at Aurangabad Maharashtra. His full name was Siraj-ud-Din Aurangabadi.
Along with Wali Dakhni siraj was the only other poet from Deccan to have left deep imprint on the tone and diction of Urdu. Siraj was one of the two front ranking poets who actually led life of a mystic, other being Mir Dard.
The anthology of his poems titled Kulliyat-i-Siraj contains his ghazals along with his famous masnavi Nazm-i-Siraj. Influenced by famous Persian poets like Hafiz, Siraj gave ghazal a new orchestration of mystical experience. Hence his ghazals have two dimensional layers of meaning the mystical and metaphysical at one level, and secular and physical at another.
Siraj&#;s masnavi Nazm-e- Siraj, though based on saga of love remains an embodiment of the emotion of love revealing the mysteries of life through sorrow and yearning. Siraj had his share of influence on the north Indian Urdu poets along with Wali Dakhni and after that Allama Iqbal and his lyrical ghazals are admired and emulated today.
Siraj ud-Daulah
Born: Died: 2 July
Mîrzâ Muhammad Sirâj-ud-Daulah (Urdu: مرزا محمد سراج الدولہ, Bengali: নব&#;ব স&#;র&#;জদ&#;ল&#;ল&#;), more commonly known as Siraj ud-Daulah ( &#; July 2, ), was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The end of his reign marks the start of British East India Company rule over Bengal and later almost all of South Asia. He was sometimes called, and his name rendered, "Sir Roger Dowler" or "Sir Roger Dowlah" by some of his British contemporaries, and "Sau Raja Dowla" by John Holwell, as the tittle of Nawab or Nabob was rendered "Nawale", and Allahabad became "Isle of Bats". However these distorted early English renderings, among others like "Sepoy", were rebuked and ridiculed by later writers
Clive on the roof of the Nawab Siraj Ud Daulah's hunting lodge, India,
Early years
Siraj's father Zain Uddin was the ruler of Bihar and his mother Amina Begum was the youngest daughter of Nawab Ali Vardi Khan. Since Ali Vardi had no son, Siraj, as his grandson, became very close to him and since his childhood was seen by many as successor to the throne of Murshidabad. Accordingly, he was raised at the nawa
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