Haidarabad

a State of Hindu stan which comprehends the _greate1 part of that central plateau of South: ern India known as the Deccan, an is in po e ion of a Mohammedar prince, the Nizam; area, 80,00( square miles, exclusive of the Bera or Haidarabad A igned Districts under British administration. The coun:, try_is intersected or bounded by the Coerey ee and their tribu taries, e chief products are rice es wheat, maize, sugar cane, tobacco, cotton, indigo, fruits and timber. Pop. o_o 12,750,000. _ Haidarabad, the capital, is on the Musi river at an elevation of 1,672 feet above the sea. Among the chief buildings are the extensive palace of the Nizam, the British residency, the Char Minar, or Four Minarets, built about 1590 as a Mohammedan college, but now used for warehouses; the Jama Masjid, or cathedral mosque, copied after that at Mecca. oop of city and suburbs (1900) est. 540,000.