Administration System Under the Nizams of Hyderabad, India

This is an attempt at presenting a brief account of the administrative history of the dominions of Hyderabad, the time the Asaf Jahi Dynasty was established here to the 1948. Following the Mughal conquest of the Golconda Kingdom in 1687, territorial adjustment and changes were effected and the Kingdom was in corporate as one of the six Mughal provinces of the Deccan as Subah Farkhundabunyad (Hyderabad). This subah or province during the first quarter of the eighteenth century and 42 sarkars and 405 mahals these sarkars or districts where Mohammadnagar (alias Golconda) Kolas, Khammamet, Koilkonda, Ganpur, Deverkonda, Nalgonda, Pangal, Bhongir, Medak, Mlangur, Mustafanagar, Murtazanagar, Ellore, Rajahmundry, Ellgandal, Warangal, Machlipatnam, Nizampatnam, Srikakul, Sidhout, Ganjikota, Goti, Koramkonda, Khmmam, Odankar, Sarvvapalli, Kanchi, Chingalpet (Madras), Chandergiri, Narsapur, Dandwari, Nusrathgarh, Tiryapal, Palakotah, Daradun, Walgondapur, Vellore, Jaydev, Tanjavur and Trichinopally.