01939nam a22002057a 450000500170000002000180001704100080003508200220004310000230006524500890008826000480017730000110022552012910023654600150152765000120154270000230155494200120157799900190158995201250160820260707105312.0  a9789365699210  aeng  223a297.61bMUL/I  aMULLA,IMRAN917575  aTHE INDIAN CALIPHATE :bEXILED OTTOMANS AND THE BILLIONAIRE PRINCE /cBY IMRAN MULLA  aINDIA :bHARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS ,c2026 .  a285p.;  aAbdulmejid II was a talented painter, music enthusiast and Francophile. He was also the last Ottoman Caliph, expelled from Istanbul in March 1924 when Turkey abolished the 1,300-year-old Caliphate.

From his villa on the French Riviera, Abdulmejid launched a plan to resurrect the institution and transform world history. Indian politician Shaukat Ali brokered a marital alliance between the Ottomans and the Nizam of Hyderabad, the world’s richest prince, who governed a state the size of Italy in the Indian subcontinent. 

This saw the union of Islam’s two greatest houses, and of the Islamic west and east. It cemented Hyderabad’s status as a global Muslim capital, and left Abdulmejid’s grandson, the Ottoman prince and the designated Nizam-in-waiting, perfectly placed to claim the Caliphate. But Partition in 1947 and the annexation of Hyderabad the following year spelled the end of this prospect. 

Exploring the lives, cultures and sensibilities of an amazing cast of players, The Indian Caliphate details this extraordinary history, which for decades has been consigned to near oblivion. This story of the downfall of two Muslim dynasties reveals a forgotten fact: that India was, in many ways, the very epicentre of the Islamic world in the early twentieth century.
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