bombay is the indian city whose name literally means 'land of the thunderbolt'.
bombay is the indian city whose name literally means 'land of the thunderbolt'.
which indian city's name literally means 'land of the thunderbolt'?
bombay
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nawab of kalabagh' was the title that malik amir mohammad khan's grandfather's great great grandfather malik surkhuru khan had taken. when after the death of the mughal emperor aurangzeb in 1707 the viceroy of bengal&murshidabad murshid quli khan became independent in 1717,and the viceroy of oudh saadat ali khan followed suit in 1724. thus in the early 1730s the viceroy of dhan kot also declared his independence from mughal rule and established his own state. which included the modern day districts of dera ismail khan,bannu,bhakkar,mianwali,& some parts of chakwal district,and placed the foundations of a new city named "kalabagh" a name literally meaning "black garden",as he planted a lot of gardens of mango trees and from afar their dense dark green leaves looked black in the dusty haze to a traveller thus the name.it should also be noted that the word "nawab" literally means viceroy in urdu,so when the various viceroys became independent it became a badge of rank and later through the ages a hereditary title,but it should be known that before this the hereditary title of the awan tribal chief since time immemorial had been "malik".the first mughal emperor babur writes of them:-. they had ruled from the time of the mahabharat,over what was then called the mountain range of the judh,now known as the salt range,from their hereditary seat of the great fort of dhan kot whose ruins stand to this day and whose name literally means the fort of wealth. its name is even mentioned as the seat of the awan malik chief in the ain-e-akbari or akbarnama of mughal emperor akbar as written by abu'l-fazl ibn mubarak. but it was situated in an extremely difficult area on a ridge overlooking the indus river and an ancient trade and invasion route. so the first nawab moved his summer residence to his new and by comparison much cooler city of kalabagh. and later by the time of his greatgrandson nawab malik muzzafar khan who was the first nawab to have come in contact with the british the fort of dhan kot was completely abandoned. nawab malik muzzafar khan had allied with the british and fought against the sikh empire for his own personal goals as the sikhs had tried to and had been partially successful in taking his state over,and so the british gave him the power's of magistrate 1st class with power to issue the death sentence, and yet another title of "khan bahadur",and confirmed to him his remaining state measuring 303 square kilometer's which now became an estate. during the first world war nawab malik muzzafar khan's great grandson and nawab malik amir mohammad khans father namely nawab malik atta mohammad khan was asked to give volunteers for the british war effort.. nawab malik atta mohammad khan died when nawab malik amir mohammad khan was just 12 years old,and thus the estate came under protection of the crown,until he grew up.
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