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A section of Muslims in Hyderabad are of Hadhrami Arab origin, who came to serve in the Nizam's military. They are known as Chaush and mostly reside in the Barkas neighbourhood of Hyderabad. Opposed to the popular belief, they are not considered a part of Hyderabadi Deccani Muslims. There are also some Siddis who are of African descent. [22] [23]
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.
The founders of both the Qu'aiti and Kathiri states in Hadhramawt had previously served as jemadars in Hyderabad. [4] Among the cultural contributions of the Chaush to India are Marfa music and dance, and Hyderabadi haleem, both which are culturally important to the Hyderabadi Muslim people, and seen at almost all wedding ceremonies. [5]
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]
The area under the municipality increased from 170 square kilometres (66 sq mi) to 625 square kilometres (241 sq mi) in 2007 when the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was created. [4] As a consequence, the total population leaped from 3,637,483 in 2001 census to 6,809,970 in 2011 census, an increase of over 87%.
Hyderabad State 1901 with Districts Hyderabad State in 1909 with Divisions and New Districts. Wilfred Cantwell Smith states that Hyderabad was an area where the political and social structure from medieval Muslim rule had been preserved more or less intact into modern times. [57] The last Nizam was reputed to be the wealthiest man in the world ...
Muslim kingdoms of Awadh, Hyderabad Deccan, Carnatic and Mysore can also be seen. In the early 18th-century, the Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad were the de facto independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal , Bihar , and Orissa which constitute the modern-day sovereign country of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal , Bihar and ...
While there is a tendency to view the Muslim conquests and Muslim empires as a prolonged period of violence against Hindu culture, [note 2] in between the periods of wars and conquests, there were harmonious Hindu-Muslim relations in most Indian communities, [176] and the Indian population grew during the medieval Muslim times. No populations ...