Screening Paper I · 1 History & Culture · APPSC Group 1
1.2.11 Asaf Jahis of Hyderabad notes
3 notes, in reading order.
- 1.2.11.1Asaf Jah I and Nizam Ali Khan: the Subsidiary Alliance and the Ceded Districts
Nizam-ul-Mulk founded the Asaf Jahi state of the Deccan after the battle of Shakar Kheda (1724); after his death (1748) the French and the English fought over his successors, and Nizam Ali Khan moved the capital to Hyderabad, became the first ruler to accept Wellesley's Subsidiary Alliance (1798) and ceded the districts later called Rayalaseema to the Company (1800).
Advanced · 8 min · Full course - 1.2.11.2Salar Jung reforms to Mir Osman Ali Khan: modern Hyderabad
After 1803 the Nizams ruled under British paramountcy; the Diwan Salar Jung I modernised the administration (Zillabandi, revenue and courts), and the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, built modern Hyderabad (Osmania University, reservoirs) until the state was taken into India by Operation Polo in 1948.
Advanced · 9 min · Full course - 1.2.11.3Nizam's Hyderabad: jagirs, sarf-e-khas, vetti and society
The Nizam's state rested on a feudal land system — government (diwani) land, the Nizam's own sarf-e-khas estate, and jagirs and samsthanams of nobles and chiefs — in which deshmukhs and doras extracted forced labour (vetti), until peasant revolt and the 1949 abolition of jagirs ended it.
Advanced · 8 min · Full course
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