by Sarah Waheed | Jul 1, 2022 | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan
Chand Bibi, a queen from the multi-ethnic medieval Deccan Where in the historical record and in historical consciousness does Chand Bibi (1550-1600) – the queen regent of Bijapur and Ahmadnagar – belong? Chand Bibi Sultan is well-known in India for valiantly defending...
by Santhosh Sakhinala | Jul 1, 2022 | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan
Becoming a Deccani artist: Tracing the history of Hyderabad’s School of Art and Crafts In the 1930s and 40s, debates on education across India focused on designing job and industry-oriented technical and vocational training. Against this backdrop, Hyderabad nurtured a...
by Yamini Krishna | Jul 1, 2022 | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan
Search for the past: Stories from the dusty archives of the Deccan As I sifted through some administrative reports of the Asaf Jahi state at the Telangana State Archives in Hyderabad, the archivist/official, a very patient man, sat there trying to match the details...
by Swathi Shivanand | Jul 1, 2022 | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan
What the Hyderabad-Deccan region teaches us about belonging During fieldwork for my PhD on Hyderabad-Karnataka in the year 2017, I was interviewing women migrants from the region living in Bengaluru and working as construction labour, about their experience of...
