Unknown, Asavari ragini: a maiden seated beneath a tree, communing with snakes
Deccan, Hyderabad, circa 1760
gouache and gold on paper, borders trimmed, verso a calligraphic album page consisting of three couplets written diagonally in nasta'liq script, dated AH 1083/AD 1672-73, trimmed
206 x 118 mm.
“What about ordinary and poor Muslims like me? We never had any jagir or any piece of land or even enough bread to survive the day. I know hundreds and thousands of Muslim families living in utter poverty. The ashraf and nawabi families – both from Muslims and Hindus as well – never cared for our daily basic needs of food, water, or housing.”
Jeelani Bano and Dasarathi Rangacharya also brought out the contradictions apparent throughout pre-1948 Hyderabad. Bano’s novel Aiwan-e-Ghazal features a set of Muslim women characters from various strata of Asaf Jahi Hyderabad navigating both the zenana of the patriarchal nobility and the forests that served as the battlefields against the princely state’s rural gentry.
Nizam-ruled Hyderabad was a dominion where the feudal oppression of women and the exploitation of lower castes were woven within its pluralistic fabric.
— Hyderabad 1948: Literature Tells Better Stories Than WhatsApp University
Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj is organising huge bhandara for the devotees who are coming to visit Ram Janm Bhumi Ayodhya. And the devotees are appreciating it
96.7% of Indians live at an elevation lesser than or equal to that of Bengaluru. 87.5% of Indians live at an elevation lesser than or equal that of Hyderabad. Map shows the areas of India which are at lower elevations than these cities.
⚡️परमेश्वर कबीर साहेब जी द्वारा संत गरीबदास जी को शरण में लेना ।
परमेश्वर कबीर साहेब जी संत गरीबदास जी को 1727 में सतलोक से आकर मिले। अपना तत्वज्ञान कराया, नाम दिया तथा सतलोक दर्शन करवाया। गरीबदास जी ने वाणी में कहा है-