18-691: Amir Mahal is the official residence of the titular Nawab of Arcot and his family. Situated in Royapettah , a neighbourhood of Chennai , India, it was constructed in Indo-Saracenic style in 1798, the Amir Mahal has been the residence of the family since 1876. The Prince of Arcot, Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, lives in the palace with his family. The Amir Mahal was constructed in 1798 by the British East India Company to house administrative offices of
36-510: A deputy mayor is known as a Naib nazim ( نائب ناظِم ). The word naib in Urdu literally means "assistant" or "deputy" hence Naib nazim was similar in function to a deputy mayor. He was also custodian of the house. Pakistan originally had a system inherited from the time of British rule, in which a mayor was the head of a district . Under the Local Government Act , however, the role of
54-539: A residential complex. While visitors are rarely allowed inside, it still has entertained several political leaders and celebrities including the Oscar awardee A. R. Rahman . 13°03′24″N 80°16′07″E / 13.056551°N 80.268533°E / 13.056551; 80.268533 This article about a palace in India is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nawab of Arcot The Carnatic Sultanate
72-611: The Krishna River . The Nawab Saadatullah Khan I moved his court from Gingee to Arcot . His successor Dost Ali Khan conquered and annexed Madurai in 1736. In 1740, the Maratha forces descended on Arcot. They attacked the Nawab, Dost Ali Khan , in the pass of Damalcherry. In the war that followed, Dost Ali, one of his sons Hasan Ali, and a number of prominent persons lost their lives. This initial success at once enhanced Maratha prestige in
90-653: The Maratha state of Tanjore, to satisfy some claims of the Dutch at Tranquebar on territories of the Rajah of Tanjore . The thirteenth Nawab, Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan , died, and the British annexed the Carnatic Nawabdom, applying the doctrine of lapse . Ghouse Khan's uncle Azim Jah was created the first Prince of Arcot (Amir-e-Arcot) in 1867 by Queen Victoria , and was given a tax free-pension in perpetuity. He died in 1855 at
108-623: The French and their colonial wars had a huge impact on the Carnatic. Wallajah supported the English against the French and Hyder Ali , placing him heavily in debt. As a result, he had to surrender much of his territory to the East India Company . Paul Benfield , an English businessman, made major loans to the Nawab for the purpose of enabling him, who, with the aid of the English, had invaded and conquered
126-694: The Mughal princes or the officers holding the highest mansabs (ranks). A nazim ( pronounced [ˈnaːzɪm] , Urdu : ناظِم ; from the Arabic word for "organizer" or "convenor"), similar to a mayor , was the coordinator of cities and towns in Pakistan . Nazim is the title in Urdu of the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan , such as a district , tehsil , union council , or village council. Likewise,
144-540: The Prince of Arcot" and granted him the Amir Mahal in Royapettah . Robert Chrisholm was given the task of converting the office building into a palace. In 1876, the Nawab moved in with his family into the Amir Mahal. The mahal has since been the residence of the Nawabs of arcot. Today, Amir Mahal has hidden itself inside the city's chaos and rushed daily life. Rarely known to the locales themselves, this place continues to function as
162-458: The age of 31. He did not leave behind any male heir. The Chepauk Palace , the official residence of the princes of the Carnatic had been taken over by the British in 1859. He constructed a new residence, the Amir Mahal , in Royapettah . 24°11′N 88°16′E / 24.18°N 88.27°E / 24.18; 88.27 Subahdar Subahdar , also known as Nazim , was one of
180-405: The commissionerate system. All the provinces introduced their own new local government systems. A Nazim was also empowered to decide criminal cases. The Nazim was the lowliest of elected officials in Pakistan. The district nazim, is elected by the nazims of Union Councils, Union Councillors, and Tehsil Nazims, who themselves are elected directly by the votes of the local public. The name which
198-661: The company. When the Carnatic kingdom was annexed by the Company in 1855 as per the Doctrine of Lapse , the Chepauk Palace , the official residence of the Nawabs, was auctioned off and purchased by the Madras government. The Nawab moved to a building called Shadi Mahal on Triplicane High Road and lived there. However, the British felt that the Shadi Mahal was "not a place fit for the residence of
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#1732854578079216-628: The designations of a governor of a Subah (province) during the Khalji dynasty of Bengal , Mamluk dynasty , Khalji dynasty , Tughlaq dynasty , and the Mughal era who was alternately designated as Sahib-i-Subah or Nazim. The word, Subahdar is of Persian origin. The Subahdar was the head of the Mughal provincial administration. He was assisted by the provincial Diwan , Bakhshi , Faujdar , Kotwal , Qazi , Sadr , Waqa-i-Navis , Qanungo and Patwari . The Subahdars were normally appointed from among
234-722: The emergence of the British Raj . The old province, known as the Carnatic, in which Madras (Chennai) was situated, extended from the Krishna River to the Kaveri River , and was bounded on the West by Mysore kingdom and Dindigul , (which formed part of the Sultanate of Mysore ). The Northern portion was known as the ' Mughal Carnatic ', the Southern the ' Maratha Carnatic ' with the Maratha fortresses of Gingee and Ranjankudi . Carnatic thus
252-530: The kings of Golconda and Bijapur, who divided the Carnatic between them. Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1692 appointed Zulfiqar Khan as the first subahdar of the Carnatic with his seat at Arcot as a reward for his victory over the Marathas led by Rajaram I . With the decline of the Mughal empire, the Carnatic subah became independent as the Carnatic Sultanate, which controlled a vast territory south of
270-419: The nazim became distinct from that of a mayor , with more power. The nazim system was introduced after the commissionerate system, imposed during British rule, was lifted by the government of Pakistan. This Local Government act was imposed in the country in 2001. One exception, however, is Islamabad , the federal capital, where the commissionerate system remained in effect. In 2009, the new government restored
288-509: The south. From Damalcherry, the Marathas proceeded to Arcot, which surrendered to them without much resistance. Chanda Sahib and his son were arrested and sent to Nagpur . Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah became the ruler in 1749, however he was not officially crowned until 1752, and he was only recognised as an independent ruler by the Emperor of Delhi in 1765. The growing influences of the English and
306-640: Was a kingdom in South India between about 1690 and 1855, and was under the legal purview of the Nizam of Hyderabad , until their demise. They initially had their capital at Arcot in the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu . Their rule is an important period in the history of the Carnatic and Coromandel Coast regions, in which the Mughal Empire gave way to the rising influence of the Maratha Empire , and later
324-629: Was the name commonly given to the region of Southern India that stretches from the East Godavari of Andhra Pradesh in the north to the Maratha fort of Ranjangudi in the south (including the Kaveri River delta), and Coromandal Coast in the east to Western Ghats in the west. With the decline of Vijayanagara Empire in 1646, the Hindu nayaks , established in Madurai, Tanjore and Kanchi, made themselves independent. However, they quickly became tributaries to
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