Was the name of Hyderabad really Bhagyanagar? What exactly do historians say?

New Delhi: Claims are countered on many points in the history of India. Different claims of historians create new patches. BJP has started creating an atmosphere to rename Telangana’s capital Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. Discussions on this issue had started since the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections. The meeting of the BJP National Executive was held in Hyderabad. In that meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also mentioned Bhagyanagar. However, the question has arisen as to whether the original name of Hyderabad was Bhagyanagar. If Bhagyanagar was the name, then which king changed it? Who was Bhagmati after whom the city will be named Bhagyanagar? These questions have already been answered by history researchers.

Hyder-e-Karrar Varun Hyderabad
If you want to know the answer to the question about the names of Hyderabad and Bhagyanagar, it is necessary to turn the pages of history. Historians say that the Qutb Shahi rulers renamed the city Hyderabad after Haider-e-Karrar. The Qutb Shahi rulers were Shia rulers. Hazrat Imam Ali, son-in-law of Mohammad Pangbar, was given the title of Haider-e-Karrar. The word Haider means lion. Hyderabad means the city of lions.
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Some people believe that the city of Hyderabad used to be called Bhagmati, then Bhagyanagar. Bhagyanagar is said to have been named after Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah of Govalkonda and his beloved Bhagmati. Qutb Shah married his mistress after the death of his father and built a new city called Bhagyanagar. According to this claim, Bhagmati converted to Islam after marriage and changed her name to Haider Begum.
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No evidence to mention Bhagyanagar?
Many claims have been made about Bhagyanagar. Historians have arranged it according to their point of view. Bhagyanagar is not mentioned in the available sources of history. Coins from the Qutb Shahi period show that the city has been called Hyderabad since its inception. During the Qutb Shahi period, Hyderabad was not called Bhagyanagar. Hyderabad is mentioned in the same way on five coins introduced by Quli Qutub Shah, the founder of Hyderabad.

Counterclaim claims in documents
An mention is made in an article published by the Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad. Historian Narendra Luther has supported Bhagyanagar’s claim in his book On the History of Bhagyamati published in 1992-93. In it, the name of Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar, he says.

Historian Mohammad Qasim Farishta has written a book on the rise of Muslim dynasties. It is claimed that the city was renamed Bhagyanagar and later renamed Hyderabad as the Sultan started liking Bhagyamati. Jean de Thevenot, a Dutch official published in 1687, in his ‘The Travels in the Levant’ mentions Bhagyanagar as the capital city of the Qutb Shahi dynasty. It is also mentioned that Iranians call Bhagyanagar Hyderabad.
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The name of the city after the garden?
Another claim is made regarding the name Hyderabad. The rich people of the Govalkonda kingdom, fed up with the unsanitary conditions of the old city, came to the banks of the river Musi, where they built large houses and gardens. Narendra Luther has denied this claim. Luther says that the city should have been called Bagnaram if the word garden had been used correctly. Narendra Luther has made this claim on the basis of the 16th century astrologer Babaji Panthulu’s book Rayavachakam in which the name of the city is mentioned as Bagnaram. Narendra Luther claims that a copy of Rayavachakam is in the Pudukottai library in Tamil Nadu.

Another story from Bhagmati
There is a popular story about Bhagmati. The fifth king of the Qutbshahi dynasty, Mohammad Quli, was a Hindu girl
Bhagmati was in love with him. Bhagmati lived in a village called Chanchalam. The same village currently has a Charminar. Mohammad Quli was crossing the river from Govalkonda to meet Bhagyamati. Therefore, Ibrahim, the father of Mohammed Quli, built a bridge over the Musi River in 1578. It is claimed that Quli Qutb Shah married Bhagmati in 1580 and named her Haider Mahal after Bhagmati.

Another claim about Bhagyanagar
Another reason why Hyderabad is called Bhagyanagar is because of its wealth and therefore its destiny is linked to destiny. The trade of diamonds and pearls, the currency of the Govalkonda empire was more valuable than the currency of the Mughals. This matter is connected with it. However, the Sanskrit name Bhagyanagar does not appear before the 20th century.

Bhagmatikatha, what about Haider Mahal?
According to historian Safiullah, fortune-tellers could not provide contemporary evidence of her existence. Hyder Mahal is nowhere to be found in Pandu script, inscriptions, coins, tombstones. There are two paintings, but they are from the 18th and 19th centuries. Bhagmati is claimed to be from the 16th century. There is no historical evidence of the marriage of Mohammad Quli and Bhagmati, says Safiullah. Even in the Qutb Shahi cemetery
Bhagmati’s tomb is not found, he says.

Bhagyalakshmi Temple
There is a Bhagyalakshmi temple near the Charminar. Proponents of Bhagyanagar claim that the temple is very old. The second group claims that the temple near Charminar was built four decades ago. Temples are not found in the old photos of the Charminar. In 2013, the Archaeological Survey of India had said that the temple was built after 1959.