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Two small yet interesting maps were prepared by the Muhammadan College, Madras, regarding the Umaiyad and Abbasid Caliphates reminding in pictorial form the important innovations in different years, like the coin• age, navy, government-built cathedral for Christians, race course, postage, asylums for lepers and other destitutes, compulsory medical examination for practising physicians, paper and glass factories, tennis, water-clock, nilorneter, etc.
M. STUDENTS of Deccan history in general, and of Islamic culture in particular, will find new and useful material in the study of the original Arabic and Persian manuscripts preserved in the archives of various collectionsall over the Deccan which have so far escaped from the notice of scholars.
The complete poetical works of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, which have recently been published under the patronage of Nawab Salar Jang Bahadur, do not bear any reference· to her name except to that of a mistress of the name of Haidar Mahal.
H. , the year of the death of Sultan Quli Qutb Shah, generally bear Hyderabad as the name of the city in their colophons.
Consequently in view of the above-noted statements it can be said that Sultan Quli Qutb Shah founded a new city named Bhagnagar, either on the suggestion or in honour of one of his mistresses who was named Bhagmati, She might have also been entitled Haidar Mahal and thus later on the city began to be called Hyderabad, although the former name Bhagnagar remained in vogue in certain quarters for a long time as it is found in the above-noted colophons of the manuscript, which is very rare to be found in such manners.