who had ruled the former princely state of Bhopal for three years. His wife, the formidable Qudsia Begum, whipped off her veil at her husband's funeral and declared herself regent. In a resounding ...
Born in 1913 into a family of brave 'begums' (a Muslim woman of high rank) who ruled the northern princely state of Bhopal in ...
Outside Gol Ghar, it is the chaotic present that takes pride in noisy cars, two-wheelers and vendors. Inside, the silent past ...
New Delhi: She was born in 1913 to Hamidullah Khan, the Nawab of Bhopal and Begum Maimoona Sultan, an elite family which ...
They were gutsy, no-nonsense women rulers, comfortable in their own skins. The begums of Bhopal, who governed the former princely state in the heart of India from 1819 to 1926, were as ...
Accompanied by her third son and by numerous retainers, the Begum of Bhopal,f sole feminine ruler of an Indian state, interviewed British statesmen on the question of her successor. Her first and ...
Sultan Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal had the palace built. Her daughter, Sultan Jahan Begum, mentioned in Hayaat-e-Shahjahani ...
came to Bhopal to work for the reigning Begum Mamola. In 1829 Bhopal was officially a part of the Agra vicariate. It was Bishop Hartmann OFM Cap, who is considered as the founder of the Church of ...