The Nawabs of Masulipatam (now Machilipatnam) ruled under the Nizam in eastern India. The best known of them was Nawab Haji Hassan Khan. Prior to the arrival of European traders in the region Masulipatnam was under the rule of the local Nawab.
Muhammad Ali Khan (died 1853), popularly known as Nawab Ali Khan, was perhaps the most well known and reputed Nawab of Masulipatam in India. He was preceded by Qutb Ud Daula. The Nawabs of Masulipatam ruled under the Nizam in east India.
Machilipatnam (Telugu: [mɐt͡ʃiliːpɐʈnɐm] ), also known as Masulipatnam, Masulipatam, or Bandar (Telugu: [bɐn̪d̪ɐɾu]), is a city in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, located 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Vijayawada. It is a...
The Najm-i-Sani dynasty (also spelled Najam-es-Sani) was a Muslim dynasty of rulers in India. It is founded by Nawab Ali Quli Khan Bahadur, who was minister to Emperor Aurangzeb (reigned 1658 to 1707), and founder of the following lines: The first...
The Asaf Jahi is a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Hyderabad State. The family came to India in the late 17th century and became employees of the Mughal Empire. They were great patrons of Indo-Persian culture, language, and literature, and the family...
The Golconda Sultanate was an early modern sultanate located in the southeastern Deccan, ruled by the Qutb Shahi dynasty. One of the five Deccan sultanates, it was established in 1518 by Quli Qutb Shah, a Shi'a Muslim of Turkoman origin. The...
Krishna district is a district in the Coastal Andhra region in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, with Machilipatnam as its administrative headquarters. It is surrounded on the east by Bay of Bengal, west by Guntur, Bapatla and north by Eluru and NTR...
The grounding of the St. Jacob and subsequent death of its Danish crew in Mughal custody took place in 1640 off the coast of Pipli in Bengal in present-day Odisha. After a successful voyage to Bantam and Makassar, the Danish yacht, St.
French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde (French pronunciation: [etablismɑ̃ fʁɑ̃se dɑ̃ l ͜ ɛ̃d]; English: French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian...
Ethnic Armenians lived in the region of Bengal (present-day Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura) since at least 17th century. There was a fairly large Armenian colony in Dhaka, concentrated in the neighbourhood of Armanitola,...
