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Hyderabad (Deccan)

حيدر آباد الدكن

A princely state in central India, ruled by a Muslim sultan under British protection, with about 13 million people, mostly Hindu, though its capital is mostly Muslim. Its army of about 30,000 was largely Hadrami Arab, per Arslan's commentary on Stoddard. The British resident had limited influence over the state's internal rule 1.

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Hyderabad in the Deccan is a princely state in central India, ruled by a Muslim sultan in alliance with the English, according to Shakib Arslan's commentary on the book "The New World of Islam". 2

He reports that its people number about 13 million, most of them Hindus, and that its capital has a Muslim majority. It has an army of about 30,000 soldiers, most of them Arabs of Hadramawt. He says that the internal rule of the state is limited, and that the English resident minister has limited influence over it. 2

The figures come from one source, Arslan in the 1920s; an additional source is needed.

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Sources

  1. Stoddard, Hadir al-ʿalam al-islami (Arabic translation with Arslan's commentary) , vol. 1, scan pp. 351–353
  2. Stoddard, Hadir al-ʿalam al-islami (Arabic translation with Arslan's commentary)
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