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Quli Qutub Shah was a secular ruler
Vice-President Md Hamid Ansari on Thursday said Hyderabad’s founder Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah was a secular ruler. Delivering the first Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah lecture at Moulana Azad National Urdu University here, he said though Qutb-shahis were of Iranian origin, their approach to governance was pragmatic and secular.
Hyderabad: Vice-President Md Hamid Ansari on Thursday said Hyderabad’s founder Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah was a secular ruler. Delivering the first Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah lecture at Moulana Azad National Urdu University here, he said though Qutb-shahis were of Iranian origin, their approach to governance was pragmatic and secular.
Ansari said that the official announcements of Mohammad Quli were bilingual as Telugu language was like a mother tongue for these rulers. “The Sultan thus made a deliberate attempt to synthesise cultures in the Deccan, imbibing in the people of Hyderabad a relish of tolerance, love of spectacle and mildness of nature,” Ansari said.
He hoped that the inherited tradition of tolerance, co-existence, inclusiveness and cultural effervescence of the city would continue to signal its uniqueness and remain an example for the country.
Ansari said a characteristic of the epoch was a spirit of camaraderie which existed between the Hindu and the Muslim sections of the population and the whole policy of the government seems to have been that of equality of opportunity for both the Hindus and the Muslims for practically all the officers of the state.
“Quli Qutub Shah occupies a place in our history and his personality and contributions are studied with much benefit by anyone interested in the evolution of architecture, language and culture,” he said and added that contemporary Hyderabad crafted with skill and success has come to occupy a place for itself in the new world of the 21st century.
