IT was Hyderabad’s famed biryani that first seduced Serish Nanisetti when he came to the city to work for Deccan Chronicle. One mouthful and he was smitten. Hyderabad was tantalizing in other ways too. Its mysterious history, for instance. When Nanisetti started digging around, hoping to uncover its past, there was little he could find. He scoured libraries and bookstores and found an Imperial Gazetteer was missing.
There were practical reasons too for his search. “When I used to edit copy, the sequence of the kings was not known and there was. . .
