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H-M synthesis in Tamil Nadu: Nawabs of Arcot

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The chief characteristic of the reign of the Nawabs was the amicable relationship that they enjoyed with their Hindu subjects. Coming in for special mention in this case is the most popular and long-serving Nawab of the family of Arcot Muhammad Ali Wallajah, titled “Amirul Hind Nawab Wallajah”. He administered the area in South India comprising Palghat in Kerala on the West and Kanyakumari in the South and Bidar in Karnataka and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh in the North from 1749 to 1795 A.D...Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, the current Prince, recounts that Nawab Wallajah’s personal assistant was a Hindu, Makhan Lal, whose name is inscribed on the walls of the Big Mosque right below a piece calligraphed by him. Even today, he adds, a significant proportion of the administrators of the estate and trusts of the House of Arcot are Hindus....

In the Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam, a famous Hindu shrine in the south of Tamil Nadu, even now the garden is called “Nawab Thottam” (Nawab Garden)....

Bronze coins from the Arcot era stand further testimony to the Nawabs’ sense of secularism. On one side of the coins are inscriptions in Tamil or Arabic — Nawabu, Wala, Anwarudu, Chanda Sahib. On the other, the symbols of Islam —crescents and mosques — cohabit the greening bronze with animals, birds and Hindu deities. “Apparently, there were even coins with Lord Muruga on his peacock and Anjaneya,” Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali says, rueing that these coins are no longer in the possession of the family....

Land for the construction of the Kapaleeswarar Temple tank in Mylapore was donated by the Nawabs. Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali says even today, as per an agreement reached by his ancestors, on the 10th day of Mohurram, Hindus allow their Muslim brethren to use the waters of the tank.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/links-with-a-royal-past/article2275484.ece

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