
Just how did the humble kulcha, a common Indian bread, make its way to becoming the royal insignia of the Hyderabad Nizams? The story begins in Delhi…


In 1712, when Mir Qamar-ud-Din was appointed the Governor of Deccan, he was given the title of Nizam-Ul-Mulk. He was only too happy to leave Delhi which had become a cesspool of political intrigue after Aurangzeb’s death. But before he took up the job of Subedar-i-Dakhan (Governor of Deccan), Mir Qamar-ud-Din went to meet his spiritual guide, the Sufi mystic Hazrat Nizamuddin Aurangabadi (whose dargah still exists in Shahganj, Aurangabad).
The story goes that the pir Hazrat Nizamuddin invited him for a meal and offered him kulchas tied in a yellow cloth. The hungry Mir Qamar-ud-Din ate seven kulchas and after his meal, Hazrat Nizamuddin blessed him and prophesied that one day he would be king and that his descendants would rule for seven generations!

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