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Post by Vakavaka Pakapaka Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:21 pm

Just imagining how Telangana became the Bihar of SI.....

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/royal-reservation/party-like-the-nizams/262445?hp

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Post by Idéfix Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:00 pm

Yeah, the extraordinary opulence of the rulers was funded directly by the oppressed masses. Including an entire one-tenth of the state's land that was his personal fiefdom, and the veTTi system of forced labor was used.

I found this video with its fawning and swooning about opulence rather distasteful. She did get one fact right: the good king just took the palace from his courtier because he liked it.
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Post by Guest Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:45 pm

panini press wrote:Yeah, the extraordinary opulence of the rulers was funded directly by the oppressed masses. Including an entire one-tenth of the state's land that was his personal fiefdom, and the veTTi system of forced labor was used.

I found this video with its fawning and swooning about opulence rather distasteful. She did get one fact right: the good king just took the palace from his courtier because he liked it.

The Nizam's prime minister, Viqar ul Omra, conceived the palace as a lavish residence for himself. The foundation stone was laid in 1884, but the building wasn't completed for almost another decade. In that time the prime minister was forced to borrow funds to finish it – money he had no chance of ever earning.

The story goes that to save face his wife suggested a wily plan. Inviting his master Mehboob Ali Pasha, the sixth Nizam, to stay, the prime minister waited to be extolled for creating such a glorious pleasure dome. And when the praise was lavished, Viqar ul Omra offered the building to the Nizam as a gift. Accepting graciously, the ruler reimbursed the full cost – a pittance to a man of such colossal wealth.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/feb/20/taj-falaknuma-palace-nizam

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