Sira Subah
Subah of Sira | |||||||||
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Subdivision of Mughal Empire | |||||||||
1687 - 1766 | |||||||||
Alam flag of the Mughal Empire | |||||||||
Mughal province of Sira shown in a map of South India at the time of the Anglo-French Wars in the Carnatic, 1746–1760 | |||||||||
Capital | Sira | ||||||||
Legislature | Mughal Darbar | ||||||||
Historical era | Early-modern period | ||||||||
• Established | 1687 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1766 | ||||||||
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Today part of | India |
The Province of Sira, also known as Carnatic-Balaghat, was a
Administration
After the
Until the mid-seventeenth century, both villagers- and district (taluq) accounts had been prepared in the language and script of
The capital and its monuments
The capital of the province, Sira town, too, prospered most under Dilavar Khan and expanded in size to accommodate 50,000 homes.[1] Palaces and public monuments of Sira became models for other edifices.[1] Both Haidar Ali's palace in Bangalore and Tipu Sultan's in Seringapatam were modeled after Dilavar Khan's palace in Sira.[1] Moreover, according to the (Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series 1908), Bangalore's Lal Bagh as well as Bangalore fort may have been designed after Sira's Khan Bagh gardens and Sira fort respectively.[1] Sira's civil servants, however, could not be as readily reproduced: after Tipu Sultan had succeeded his father as Sultan of Mysore in 1782, he deported 12,000 families, mainly of city officials, from Sira to Shahr Ganjam, a new capital he founded on Seringapatam island.[1]
There are Mughal-era buildings that still stand in the town. Among them are the Juma Masjid.
The other towns
Different towns and regions fared differently during the eventful seventy-year history of the province. In
Subahdars (governors)
Qasim Khan (also, Khasim Khan or Kasim Khan) was appointed the first
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See also
- Sira town
- History of Mysore and Coorg, 1565–1760
- History of Mysore and Coorg, 1761–1799
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series 1908, pp. 175–176
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series 1908, p. 166
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series 1908, p. 19
- ^ a b c d e f Rice 1897a, p. 589
- ^ a b Rice 1897a, pp. 574–575
- ^ a b c d e Rice 1897a, pp. 589–590
- ^ a b c d e Rice 1897b, pp. 68–70
- ^ a b c d e f g Rice 1897b, p. 166
- ^ Rice 1897b, p. 521
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV 1907, p. 335
References
- Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series (1908), Mysore and Coorg, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Pp. xvii, 365, 1 map.
- Rice, Lewis (1897a), Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for the Government, Volume I, Mysore In General, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company. Pp. xix, 834
- Rice, Lewis (1897b), Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for the Government, Volume II, Mysore, By Districts, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company. Pp. xii, 581