English Translation of Napoleon Bonaparte's Letter to Tipu Sultan Proposing an Alliance Against the British in India, Intercepted Before Delivery by British Authorities in Mocha,Yemen (1798–99)
the last line 🙌🏼
u/wise-Username — 16 hours ago
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From the Archives of TIME Magazine (1937): "The Richest Man in the World" — Celebrating 25 Years on the Throne, the $1.4 Billion Capital, and 10,000 Troops of Hyderabad’s Nizam, Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan.
India has no native state so rich, potent and extensive as Hyderabad which is about the size of the United Kingdom and there last week the Royal Family of the Asatia Dynasty celebrated the Silver Jubilee of “The Richest Man in the World,” Lieut. General His Exalted Highness Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar.
Because the scheduled Coronation Durbar next winter of British King & Emperor George VI has had to be canceled by His Majesty (TIME, Feb. 15), there is no immediate prospect for the world to see such another Indian spectacle of pomp and power as that of the Jubilee Durbar which began in Hyderabad with warlike display of 10,000 Hyderabad troops last week and will close Feb. 26 when the Nizam prays in the public gardens of the Great Mosque, entertains the eminent Indian theologians of his Dominions, and throws open the characteristic and important Hyderabad Departmental Progress Exposition.
Some Indian sovereigns are lecherous, champagne-quaffing wastrels with a taste for French women and English horses which they spectacularly gratify from Monte Carlo to Epsom Downs and Hollywood, but decidedly the Nizam is different, and by an honored Hyderabad tradition no Nizam has ever left India no matter how good a reason might exist for doing so. Ever since Hyderabad stood aloof from the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, its Royal Family have been accorded by British Royalty special honors and the Nizam now has the official status of “Faithful Ally.” This gracefully implies that his exalted highness is not so much the inferior as the colleague of His Majesty the Emperor of India — and, during the World War, the dry, grave “Richest Man in the World” contributed to Britain some $100,000,000 cash plus untold supplies and Hyderabad army units.
u/Beyondtheseafree — 8 days ago
Which Indian Muslim conquest of a city was equivalently significant to that of Istanbul?
Do not include The Conquest of Sindh, please try including conquests that originated within the Indian Subcontinent
u/Alarming_Stage5631 — 9 days ago