Bhopal is a city and an old principality of the India. Bhopal is the capital of the Madhya Pradesh with approximately 1,5 million inhabitants.
The city is famous to have been the theater of most important the industrial Catastrophe in the world: the Catastrophe of Bhopal because death of several thousands of people the night of the 2 to the December 3rd 1984.
The town of Bhopal
Bhopal is the capital of the
state Madhya Pradesh. Its population with the census of 2001 was of 1 433 875 h. It are located at 23°16' northern latitude and 77°36' of longitude is. Its surface is of 71,23 km ² and it is located at 523 m of altitude.
Inheritance
The inheritance of the city counts especially for its mosques:
Jâma Masjid (
1837),
Moti Masjid (towards
1860),
Tâj-ul Masjid (towards
1880).
History of the principality
Bhopal is founded by the
Râja Bhoja at the 11th century. There does not remain any vestige of this time, except an artificial lake. The true founder of the city that we know is
Dost Muhammad , an Afghan soldier
which had fled the chaos which reigned with
Delhi after the death of
Aurangzeb. Dost Mohammad meets the queen indigenous Gond
Kamlapati which required its assistance after the disappearance of sound
Prince Consort. In
1723, it created the state of Bhopal by amalgamating 9 small states. The city with the characteristic to be controlled by Bégam S between
1844 and
1926. Those, deeply religious and preserving, carried out an austere life and carried a great interest to the administrative life of their state.
Among the important bégams of Bhopal, one finds Kudsiâ Bégam († 1844), Sikrandra Bégam (1816 - 1868), Shâh Jahân Bégam (1838 - 1901) and Sultân Jahân which was one of largest leading of the state.
Although controlled by Moslem leaders, the population of Bhopal was always mainly Hindu.
Leaders: Nabobs and Bégams
; Nabob
- 1723 - 1728: Dost Muhammad Khan
- 1728 - 1742: Soltan Muhammad Khan
- 1728 - 1742: Yar Muhammad Khan - regent
- 1742 - 1777: Fayz Muhammad Khan
- 1777 - 1807: Hayat Muhammad Khan
- 1807 - 1826: Ghows Muhammad Khan
- 1807 - 1816: Wazir Al-Molk Wazir Muhammad Khan - regent
- 1816 - 1819: Naser Al-Dowla Naser Muhammad Khan - regent
- 1819 - 1837: Qodsiyya Bégam - regent
- 1826 - 1837: Mo' izz Muhammad Khan
- 1837 - 1844: Jahangir Muhammad Khan
; Nabob Bégam
- 1844 - 1860: Soltan Sultân Jahân Bégam (1st reign)
- 1845 - 1847: Fawdjar Muhammad Khan - regent
- 1847 - 1860: Sikander Bégam - regent
- 1860 - 1868: Sikander Bégam
- 1868 - 1901: Soltan Sultân Jahân Bégam (2nd reign)
- 1901 - 1926: Soltan Kaykhosrow Jahân Begam
; Nabob
- 1926 - 1947: Muhammad Hamidollah Khan Iskandar Sowlat Iftikhar Al-Molk Bahadur
The industrial catastrophe of Union Carbide
See also: Catastrophe of Bhopal
The Catastrophe of Bhopal is the most important known industrial catastrophe to date. In the night of the 2 to the December 3rd 1984, the escape of a silo of chemicals causes the death of more than one ten thousands of people. It still causes, 21 years after, deaths of several people every month.
See too
External bonds
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