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[[File:Wedding procession of Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah.jpg|thumb|300px|Wedding procession of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah with Bhagmati.]]<br />
'''Bhagamati (Hyder Mahal)''' was a queen of Sultan [[Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah]], in whose honor Hyderabad was supposedly named.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-04-29|title=Hyderabad or Bhagyanagar? The tiff continues|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140429/nation-current-affairs/article/name-game|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Deccan Chronicle|language=en}}</ref> There exists debate among scholars about whether there existed any Bhagamati at all and whether she influenced the naming.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Ifthekhar|first=J. S.|date=2013-11-11|title=Did Bhagmati really exist?|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/did-bhagmati-really-exist/article5339909.ece|access-date=2020-12-16|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Ayoob Ali Khan|first=Mir|date=22 March 2010|title=For Hyderabadis, Bhagmati is vital part of history {{!}} Hyderabad News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/For-Hyderabadis-Bhagmati-is-vital-part-of-history/articleshow/5709733.cms|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-16|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Popular narrative ==<br />
Bhagmati was born in 'Chichlam' (place not identified with certainty) in a [[Hindu]] family; she was a local [[nautch]]-girl.<ref name=":0" /> Qutb Shah met her whilst riding out, fell in love to the extent of having constructed [[Purana pul|''Purana Pul'']] as a means of meeting her regularly, and entered into a marriage.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> Accordingly, the sultan founded a city around her birth-place and named it "Bhaganagar" or "Bhāgyanagar" in her honor.<ref name=":1" /> After she converted to [[Islam]] and adopted the title ''Hyder Mahal'', the city was renamed ''Hyderabad''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Pillai|first=Manu S.|date=2018-11-15|title=Opinion {{!}} A Hyderabadi conundrum|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Zad93Q6KZOuM4jrH99qaeN/Opinion--A-Hyderabadi-conundrum.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-16|website=LiveMint|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Scholarly debates ==<br />
That Purana Pul was completed in 1578 after 2 years of construction; Qutb Shah (b:1566) was romancing Bhagmati as young as ten years.<ref name=":0" /> Furthermore, no tomb was built over her last remains unlike other leading female figures of the court; no inscription or coin of that period mentions her name.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The chroniclers who mentioned of her were either from North of the Sultanate, who did not visit Hyderabad or foreigners, who arrived long after her death; contemporary Deccani sources including Qutb Shah himself don't mention of her at all.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> The conferral of 'Hyder', an immensely sacred Islamic attribute on a nautch-girl has been doubted as well.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> All these cast significant doubts on the authenticity of Bhagmati's existence.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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Some however assert that the historicity of multiple sources can't be rejected as hearsay due to their foreign nature, sources exist in that the State Museum in Public Gardens has a portrait of her commissioned around 1750, and that her conspicuous absence from Deccani sources were a result of [[damnatio memoriae]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Others believe Bhagnagar (which was indeed named after her) was a separate village which has nothing to do with today's Hyderabad.<ref name=":1" /> <br />
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