BN Posted December 24, 2003 Hyderabad's African old guard The crowing of the cockerel greeted me at Mohammed bin Hassan's immaculate little house, down a side street in an old quarter of Hyderabad. While some of India's Sidis came as slaves, this southern city's community has its roots in a troop of guards recruited to serve the Nizams - the old Muslim dynasty of this one-time princely state. "My grandfather came from British Somaliland, from Hargeisa. My father was born here," he told me. "The Ethiopians here speak only Urdu - me too," Mohammed bin Hassan told me. But he has no regrets about having lost his Somali culture. The Sidi ancestors were guardsmen brought over by Muslim rulers "Nothing African is left - no music, no clothes; everything is Indian"-Mahmud bin Farzullah Hyderabad's AC Guards district still has a distinctly Muslim feel http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3116817.stm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Liqaye Posted December 26, 2003 this was a very intreasting article. I mean to be a nomad. :eek: pakistan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
