"It is an account of a journey undertaken in 1823 by ‘Ãzam Jãh Bahãdur “after he ascended the throne of the Carnatic as Nawwãb Wãlãjãh VI.” The author, Ghulãm ‘Abdul Qadir Nãzir, was his court scribe who accompanied the Nawwãb on this journey. Nãzir does not tell us that his patron was a Nawwãb only in name as he was living in Madras on British charity, his ancestral principality of Arcot having been ceded to the British in 1801. What he says instead is how the “Nawwãb” lost his temper when he learnt that the Muslims in his retinue were visiting the Hindu temples at Chidambaram and how he “gave strict orders” to British officers of the place “that no Muslim should be allowed to go over to the temple and enter it.” At a later stage, we are told that “the party marched forth… to the accompaniment of music provided by dancing girls of the Hindu cornmunity.” The account names numerous Sufis etc., who came to the districts of Chingleput, North Arcot, South Arcot, Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur and established Muslim places of worship."
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Bahãr-i-Ãzam; Goel. Bahãr-i-Ãzam, translated in English, Madras, 1960, p. 2., p. 18-19, p. 101. quoted from Goel S.R. Hindu Temples Vol II.
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Bahar I Azam Jahi
Bahar I Azam Jahi is a Persian pilgrimage chronicle, it is a compilation of various pieces of information by Ghulam Abdul Qadir Nazir. Azam Jah of the Carnatic appointed the author to record the events during his pilgrimage journey to the Nagore Dargah from Madras and return via Trichinopoly and Arcot. The pilgrimage was undertaken in 1823, and the author's job was to document everything they came across during their journeys, such as the name of the villages, tombs of saints, mosques, buildings
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