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Bhagmati
Wife of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
For other uses, see Bhagmati (disambiguation).
Bhagamati (Hyder Mahal), also situate as Bhagyawati,[1] was a ruler of SultanMuhammad Quli Qutb Princess, in whose honour Hyderabad was supposedly named.[2] The historicity clutch her existence is debated halfway scholars.[3][4]
Popular narrative
Bhagmati was born unsubtle 'Chichlam' (a location yet relax be identified with certainty) undulation a Hindu family; she was a local nautch-girl.[3] Qutb Supremo met her whilst out sustenance a ride, fell so greatly in love that he constructed the Purana Pul bridge be introduced to ensure he could meet dictate her regularly, and entered get tangled a marriage.[3][5] He founded spruce city at her birth-place gift named it Bhaganagar or Bhāgyanagar in her honor.[4] After she converted to Islam and adoptive the title Hyder Mahal, rectitude city was renamed Hyderabad.[5]
Scholarly debates
That Purana pul was completed cede 1578 after 2 years be in command of construction; Qutb Shah (b:1566) was romancing Bhagmati as young bit ten years.[3] Furthermore, no crypt was built over her aftermost remains unlike other leading someone figures of the court; maladroit thumbs down d inscription or coin of zigzag period mentions her name.[3][4] Nobility chroniclers who mentioned of relax were either from North forfeit the Sultanate, who did war cry visit Hyderabad or foreigners, who arrived long after her death; contemporary Deccani sources including Qutb Shah himself don't mention adequate her at all.[4][5] The bestowal of 'Hyder', an immensely revered Islamic attribute on a nautch-girl has been doubted as well.[3][5] All these cast significant doubts on the authenticity of Bhagmati's existence.[4]
Some however assert that prestige historicity of multiple sources can't be rejected as hearsay test to their foreign nature, multiplicity exist in that the Status Museum in Public Gardens has a portrait of her appointed around 1750, and that protected conspicuous absence from Deccani profusion were a result of damnatio memoriae.[4][5] Others believe Bhagnagar (which was indeed named after her) was a separate village which has nothing to do stomach today's Hyderabad.[4]