The districts of the Nizam's Dominions (1931)
Era: Mughals, Asaf Jahis & the British, Reform, freedom & people's movements
- Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
- Present-day state borders, for orientation
- Approximate extent
The districts of Hyderabad State as the census of 1931 maps them. The eight Telangana districts, where most people spoke Telugu, are drawn one by one: Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Nizamabad in the Warangal suba (division); Medak, Nalgonda and Mahbubnagar in the Medak suba; and Atraf-i-Balda, the Nizam's own district round Hyderabad. The Marathi and Kannada districts of the west are shown as the Aurangabad and Gulbarga subas. Medak district was governed from Sangareddy. The boundaries are rough sketches after the census map, not surveyed lines.
Historical boundaries are approximate. Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain). Redrawn from: Census 1931 Map of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (Census of India 1931, Vol. XXIII, Part I: Report) (opens in a new tab), G. Ahmed Khan, Census Commissioner (Government Central Press, Hyderabad), 1933 (Public domain). Attributions
Sources
- Khan, Gulam Ahmad, Census of India 1931 vol.23 H.E.H. the Nizamʼs dominions (Hyderabad State); pt.1- Report (opens in a new tab), 1933, pp. 1–2, 16; folding map (PDF p. 3). [Public domain]
- Government of India, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Hyderabad State (opens in a new tab), Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1909, pp. 1, 51, 121–122. [Public domain]