!HYDERABAD HYDERABAD is the capital city of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It was designed by Lt. Samuel Russel. The British Residency of Hyderabad was built in 1806. Presently used as a Government college. It was of the Nizam's dominions in the Deccan, is 6 m. in circumference, strongly protected all round by a belt of rocky desert, and a centre of Mohammedanism in India. Hyderabad was also the capital of Sind province of Pakistan, near the apex of the delta of the Indus. It was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro. It manufactures silks, pottery, and lacquered ware, and is strongly fortified.