BhopalMetropolis and state capital in Madhya Pradesh, IndiaMetropolis in Madhya Pradesh, IndiaBhopal (Hindi: Bhōpāl, pronounced ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the City of Lakes, due to presence of various natural and artificial lakes near the city boundary. It is also one of the greenest cities in India.
Dost Mohammad of BhopalDost Mohammad Khan (c. 1657–1728) was the founder of Bhopal State in central India. He founded the modern city of Bhopal, the capital of the modern day Madhya Pradesh state. An Afghan from Tirah, Dost Mohammad Khan joined the Mughal Army at Delhi in 1703. He rapidly rose through the ranks, and was assigned to the Malwa province in Central India.
Maratha Empire1674–1818 empire in the Indian subcontinentToday part ofIndiaPakistanThe Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modernpolity in the Indian subcontinent. For most of its existence, it comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent Maratha states under the nominal leadership of the former and nominal loyalty to the Chhatrapatis who were successors of Shivaji.
Islamnagar, BhopalIslamnagar (officially known as Jagdishpur since February 2023) is a panchayat village in the Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located in the Huzurtehsil and the Phandablock. Formerly a fortified city, Islamnagar was the capital of the Bhopal princely state for a brief period. The ruins of the palaces built by Bhopal's founder Dost Mohammad Khan still exist at the site.
Princely stateA princely state (also called native state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British Indian government, but rather by an indigenous ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British Crown.
Mughal Empire1526–1857 empire in South AsiaToday part ofIndiaPakistanBangladeshAfghanistanThe Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
Subsidiary allianceTributary alliance between an Indian princely state and an East India Company Lithograph of Joseph François Dupleix, who pioneered the system of subsidiary alliances. A subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history, was a tributary alliance between an Indian state and a European East India Company, most notably the British East India Company.
Presidencies and provinces of British IndiaThe provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India.
Islamic StateSalafi jihadist militant organisation
Tributary stateState in a subordinate relationship to another, more powerful state The bunga mas, a form of tribute sent to the King of Ayutthaya from its vassal states in the Malay Peninsula A tributary state is a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of alliance, or tribute, to the superior power (the suzerain).
Afghan (ethnonym)Historic term for ethnic Pashtun people Bactrian document in the Greek script from the 4th century mentioning the word Afghan (αβγανανο): "From Ormuzd Bunukan to Bredag Watanan, the chief of the Afghans."*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.