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Twin city
K.S.S. SESHAN
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In 2006, Secunderabad, celebrated its bi-centenary.
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Hyderabad was founded in 1591 by Muhammad Quli, the Sultan of Golconda and named it Bhagyanagar, in the name of his Hindu wife Bhagmathi. But when he conferred the title Hyder Mahal on her, the city came to be known as Hyderabad. While thus Hyderabad was founded on love, its twin Secunderbad was the product of British diplomacy and the city itself was modelled on a typical English town. It came into being after the Subsidiary Alliance of 1798 was signed stipulating the per
manent stationing of the British East India Company’s forces within the Nizam’s state. An elevated ridge of 150 feet above the Musi, about five km, away from Charminar proved to be a suitable site for the Cantonment. Soon a contingent of 5,000 troops of the subsidiary force, constituting a division of the Madras army arrived.
Naming
When the township began in 1806, Captain Sydenham the British Resident proposed that the then Nizam, Sikander Jah Bahadur should lend his name to the Cantonment and the town surrounding it for, it was he who granted the land. Thus the town originally was Sikanderabad, but later was anglicised and became, Secunderabad.
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