Nizam Sikandar Jah (r.1803-29), seen in two court settings

Source: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4572633&SE=CMWCAT04+106487+%2D1653539700+&QR=M+1+0+Aqc0000900+93174++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&SN=7074&RQ=True&AN=1
(downloaded Sept. 2005)

"TWO PORTRAITS, Hyderabad, circa 1808-16. Gouache heightened with gold on paper, each one depicting Nizam Mir Akbar 'Ali Khan Sikandar Jah, each sitting on a carpet in a garden in front of a terrace, each trimmed to miniature and mounted. Each 8 x 5½in. (20.4 x 14.1cm.)."

*The Residency, Hyderabad (Deccan); a palatial residence in classical style, with imposing entrance gateways, standing in a wooded park; a pencil drawing, c.1810* (BL)

A gold mohur issued by Sikandar Jah in 1820/1 from the Hyderabad mint, and bearing his titles and regnal year

Source: http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=66599
(downloaded Mar. 2006)




"The British Residency at Hyderabad," from vol. 3 of 'The Indian empire' by Robert Montgomery Martin, c.1860

Source: http://www.archive.org/details/indianempirehist03martuoft
(downloaded Jan. 2009)

*The Residency, Chaderghat, Hyderabad; a photo by Lala Deen Dayal, 1880's* (BL)




Another view of the Residency, c.1880's

Source: ebay, July 2012

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