Hyderabad Municipal Maps, City Area, Southern Half City Area, Reduced Map Sheet No - 14 Front

The city of Hyderabad within its fortified wall is the highlight of the map. The fortification is clearly marked and the southern parts of the walled city where Mir Jumla Tank lies at the southeast corner and Aliabad Darwaza lies at the southwest corner are visible. Four main roads meet up the Darwaza Aliabad, thus forms a Junction, from there leads Falak Numa road to the south and Panj Mahla Road to the north, Aliabad Street to the east and Kurmagura and Ghazi Banda Street to the west, are well depicted. Darwaza means the door, particularly of a city wall. According to the historians, the city of Hyderabad was a walled city. The city wall was erected during the last days of Subadarship Mubariz Khan Imadul Mulk. Initially, the construction started from Chadarghat gate to Dabirpura gate with stone and mortar without turret-parapets. The rest of the wall surmounted by the turret-parapets was done by Asaf Jah I. Later it was extensively repaired by Bahadur Dil Khan Shuja-ud-Daula, governor of Hyderabad during the reign of Asaf Jah II. The city wall had 13 gates (Darwaza) and 13 Khirkis (posterns). These 13 gates were Chadarghat Darwaza, Delhi gate, Afzal Ganj Gate, Champa, Old Bridge (Narva) gate, Dudh Bauli gate, Aliabad gate, Lal Gate, Gaulipura, Ghazibanda or Fateh, Mir Jumla, Yakutpura, and Dabirpura gates. And, 13 doors (Khirki) were Borah Khirki, Mir Jumla Khirki, Matha Khirki, Rangeli or Rangali Shah Khirki, Bodla Khirki, Darushshifa Khirki, Kalala Khirki, Dhobi Khirki, Hasan Ali Khirki, Champa gate Khirki, Char Mahal Khirki, Dudh Bauli Khirki, Khirki of Kahar.

Such a thickly inhabited area with residential as well as commercial buildings within bazaars and streets lanes are clearly visible within the walled city. Southward to the Mir Jumla Tank outside the city wall, areas are mainly rocky and arid in nature, hence, unhabituated places are visible. Interestingly, areas close to the out of city wall are thickly inhabited and beyond that again uninhabited places, mainly occupied by gardens, flower gardens, and toddy palm field. And, areas to the west of the Aliabad Darwaza occupied by Jahan Numa, where Jahan Numa Lancers and Pahar Jahan Numa,
and a large rocky terrain are visible. To the north of Jahan Numa, lies a number of gardens belong to the nobles of the state, hence the area itself known as Phul Bagh Street. And, the residences of many other prominent people like Maharaja Kishan Prasad, Chandu Lal, and Shams-ul-Umara, well-known ministers of the state of Hyderabad are also set up within city wall are clearly visible.