Daneesh Majid. | PHOTO CREDIT: NAGARA GOPAL
Hyderabad’s rich, layered history has long conquered writers and scientists. But with the fact that Telangana described its 11th anniversary of June, there is a restored interest in the state and its capital, which was formed by dynasties, cultural syncretism and centuries of transformation. Tap this growing interest, the new book by Daneesh Majida, Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the present it has portrayed the nuanced portrait of the city and connects its micro-dreamed its inhabitants.
Majid profiles family displaced by Polo operation and its bloody consequences, chronizing lives that were once comfortable, but later appeared, sometimes with the hands that once served them. The book presents a diverse perspective: from those who opposed the Razakar to the story of a Hindu woman, broken that her Hyderabad fallen.
Majid also turns his view outside India and follows the lives of compatriots who have spent several decades in West Asian countries that have become their second home. After returning, they had to rebuild their lives in the city that changed quickly. Through these different stories it captures different experiences. They are also trying to align often different stories, many of which continue to carry political undertones.
“There were a lot of literature on the club that was evoking, but I found that the stories of Hyderabadis were not much,” says Majid. “Mikro history, which concerns large questions in smaller places, outside the hallway of power, these stories are sometimes contrary to the S-Grave History. There are some truth in both stories.
In the chapter “from Jagirdar to Jamaati”, Majid will record the story of Omar Farooq Quadri, a student whose family fled from Bamini in Marathwad for Operation Polo. At first they were looking for refuge in the rural telangana and later moved to Hyderabad. The change in family wealth has changed them from landlords to paupery, even though a family member became a dervišhem. While “Quadri” indicates either the SFI or association line, the family had to change the course spiritually.
“Hind Jamaat-E-Islami played a key role in their rehabilitation socially in Hyderabad. Omar is now a student leader at the National University of Maulan Azad, which hit me as one of Hyderabad students where people find people from Kashmir, Uttar and Bihar,” Mijhar, “Mijhar,” Mijhar, “Mijhar,” Mijhar, “Mishid,” Mijhar, “Mijhar,” Mijhar, “Mijhar,” Mijhar, “Mijhar,” Mijhar, “Mijhar,” Mijhar.
Through the story of Narayan Raj Saxena, the grandson of Bansi Raja, the close assistant of the sixth Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, Majid illustrates how the Kayastha community was an inalienable part of Hyderabad history. “He witnessed the turbulent period of 1948. He saw Hyderabad to change his own eyes.” Kayasths were qualified administrators in the Nizam government and were great with languages. They knew Persian, and when the official language in the 88th of the 20th century turned into Urda, they managed it too. “
After 1948, some Muslim families moved to Pakistan. Ali Adil Khan, one of Majid’s objects, was born in Hyderabad at the age of 60. During one of his parents visits in the city of Pakistan. His father, Mohammed Anwar Ali, went to Karachi on August 14, 1950. In 1948, when his grandfather Ishaq Ali was sent in Bidar, the Polo operation was launched. While Ishaq Ali was in Hyderabad, his family was still in Bidar. He was a Hindu neighbor who arranged a safe passage to Hyderabad.
But Majid deliberately avoids the discussion of the mainstream policy. For example, the complex history of all India Majlis-e-Ithadul Muslimeen, now led by the Owaisi brothers, is largely missing. While he mentions Abid Ali Khan, influential journalist Hyderabadi, who co-founded Siasat Daily, Tussle between the heads-minion and the present-these two power centers of Muslim policy will not find a place in narration.
Published – 6 June 2025 23:35
