The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . This and theallowance for Pallaveram and the enjoyment of sea-breeze havemade the Chaplaincy the most desirable of all in the dioceseafter the Cathedral and St. Marys, Fort St. George. Holy Trinity Church, Aurangabad.—Aurangabad is in thenorth-west corner of the Nizams dominions, an historic cornerwhich includes the site of the battle of Assaye. In the year1600 the Moghuls entered the District. Th
The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . This and theallowance for Pallaveram and the enjoyment of sea-breeze havemade the Chaplaincy the most desirable of all in the dioceseafter the Cathedral and St. Marys, Fort St. George. Holy Trinity Church, Aurangabad.—Aurangabad is in thenorth-west corner of the Nizams dominions, an historic cornerwhich includes the site of the battle of Assaye. In the year1600 the Moghuls entered the District. Thirty-five yearslater Aurangzebe became Viceroy of the Deccan and took uphis abode in it. In 1637 the District was annexed to theMoghul empire and incorporated in the Deccan Viceroy changed the name of the old Mahratta capital toAurangabad. Here he plotted against his father and brothers,and from this centre he carried on his long conflicts withSivaji the Mahratta, and with the kingdoms of Bijapore andGolcondah. On his death in 1707 his general Asaf Jah declared hisindependence of the Moghul empire, made Hyderabad hiscapital, and assumed the title of Nizam. The next hundred. < < Q. I o cc IO o hz<O LU X h CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1825 AND 1835 287 years were years of continual conflict and destruction. In1803 Colonel Welsh described Aurangabad as a heap of There were a few palaces and houses undestroyed,among them the beautiful white marble mosque and mausoleumwhich Aurangzebe built to the memory of his favourite wifeafter the model of the Taj Mahal. The modern city is to theeast of the old city, and the cantonment on the west side of the time Colonel Welsh visited it the place was principallyfamous for its gardens and fruits. After the Mahratta war of 1803-5 the cantonment wasgarrisoned by three regiments of the Hyderabad Contingent,two of infantry and one of cavalry. This arrangement con-tinued for some time. There was also a regimen
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