The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.31

v4.c21.31

On the cultural side the picture was equally dark. Light came to Hyderābād under the Āsaf Jāhī dynasty, but not progress. Its rulers continued to dream the dreams of Aurangzīb’s reign and to live in the seventeenth century. Titles of hyperbolical sound and fury but signifying no real worth were profusely showered among the officials, regardless of the great Āsaf Jāh’s threat of flogging.