India's Islamic Matriarchs

A Brief History of Bhopal

Sadar Manzil, once Bhopal’s Durbar Hall

Bhopal today is largely remembered as the site of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, one of the great industrial disasters of the twentieth century.

Yet the city is so much than that. Just a century ago, it was the capital of the second largest Muslim-ruled state in the Raj, and from 1819 to 1926, it was ruled entirely by wom…