Abstract
This chapter presents the journey of the author about understanding the city one loves the most. She takes pride in showing its historic and modern pockets to the world. The chapter is also about the challenges the people like her face in the city as they love the local heritage, and they also attempt to resolve the conflict of choosing future over past. In this chapter we shall understand and appreciate how a city in history lives in harmony with its futuristic counterpart. There is a discussion about the solutions to work with a balance between the old and the new. The Heritage, which means ‘inherit’, should be discussed, but not in close rooms. In open historic areas and with the people who make the true meaning of the word ‘heritage’, that is, the with younger generation the discussion must go on.
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The area of Deccan in the maps have been marked as Dakshinapatha, means ‘the path to south’.
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The next Qutb Shah, Subhan Quli ruled for a very short period and was a minor hence we consider his next ruler as third Qutb Shah-Ibrahim Quli.
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The sixth Qutb Shah Abdulla built a Baradari here for courtesans Taramati and a mosque was built by another courtesan named Pemamati on a nearby hillock.
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The capital was named Hyderabad. It was also called Baghnagar (the city of gardens). It might have been Bhaganagar, as the scholars believe that Mohammed Quli name the new city after Bhagmati, whom he married.
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Ashurkhana is a place where Alams are kept. The mourning in the month of Moharrum is observed here.
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This hospital had inspired the Asaf Jah rulers to upgrade medical facilities in their dominion by introducing modern medicines in the early part of the nineteenth century. The Hyderabad Medical School was set up in 1846, before the modern Osmania Medical College. The city also witnessed one of the major medical discoveries – malarial parasite ‘Plasmodium’ that is transmitted by mosquitoes. This discovery was made by Dr Ronald Ross (1857–1932); his laboratory in Begumpet is a Heritage site now.
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Hayat Baksh was an illustrious woman in the Qutb Shahi history. She was the mother of sixth Qutb Shah, wife of fifth Qutb Shah and daughter of fourth ruler Mohammed Quli.
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Most of these palaces are mentioned to be of three to four storeyed high.
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He was not granted the title of Nizam.
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It later on was occupied to be used as the Salarjung Museum.
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Devdi or deorhi is a palatial residence.
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Pestonji also contributed to the construction of a Parsi Fire Temple (presently located at Tilak Nagar), thereby giving a very secular and cosmopolitan character to the city.
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The area came to be known as Begumpet as Basher-un-Nisa, wife of a Paigah Noble got this land in her marriage. The village after the ‘begum’, was called Begumpet. The school was built for the children of Jagirdars now known as Hyderabad Public School.
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Vottery, M. (2020). Connecting the Past and the Present for a Better Future of Historic City of Developing Country: Case of Heritage Walks of Hyderabad. In: Ghosh, M. (eds) Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25879-5_22
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