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The Nizam was the Muslim ruler of the vast princely Hyderabad State. The capital city of Hyderabad was primarily Urdu-speaking Muslim until the incorporation of Hyderabad into India and the subsequent rise to dominance of the native Telugu-speaking Hindu people of Telangana. The state's economy was agrarian, and Hyderabad was primarily a ...
Hyderabadi Muslims are an ethnoreligious community of Urdu-speaking Muslims, part of a larger group of Dakhini Muslims, from the area that used to be the princely state of Hyderabad, India, including cities like Hyderabad, Aurangabad and Bidar.
Among the foreign-origin communities Yemeni Arabs form the majority with African Arabs, Iranian, Pathani and Turkic as minorities - who kept settling here during Muslim rule, but which declined after the accession of Hyderabad State into the Indian Union. [12] Telugu and Urdu are the official languages of Hyderabad, while English is commonly used.
Charminar. The culture of Hyderabad, also known as Hyderabadi Tehzeeb (حیدرآبادي تہذیب ) or Dakhini Tehzeeb (دکني تہذیب ), [1] is the traditional cultural lifestyle of the Hyderabadi Muslims, and characterizes distinct linguistic and cultural traditions of North and South India, which meet and mingle in the city and erstwhile kingdom. [2]
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established the city of Hyderabad in 1591, which would grow to encompass Golconda. He built the Charminar as the centerpiece of the city, as well as the Mecca Masjid , which is the largest mosque in the city with a capacity to accommodate 10,000 worshippers. [ 2 ]
In 1926, Mahmud Nawaz Khan, a retired Hyderabad official, founded the Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (also known as MIM). The MIM became a powerful organization, with a principal focus of marginalizing the political aspirations of Hindus and progressive Muslims through its actions, including the insistence that Hyderabad be declared a Muslim state.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (lit. ' All India Council for Unity of Muslims '; abbr. AIMIM) is an Indian political party based primarily in the old city of Hyderabad, [7] It is also a significant political party in the Indian States of Telangana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Bihar.
The Hyderabad massacres [8] were the mass killings and massacre of Hyderabadi Muslims and Dalits [9] that took place simultaneously with the Indian annexation of Hyderabad (Operation Polo). [ citation needed ] The killings were perpetrated by Hindu fanatic militias and the Indian Army .