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Title: A comprehensive history of India, civil, military, and social, from the first landing of the English to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt; including an outline of the early history of Hindoostan Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Beveridge, Henry, 1837-1929 Subjects: Publisher: London, Blackie Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: liis military talents, and ultimatelybecame the progenitor of the Kings of Oude. The mode by which the conspira-tors proposed to effect their object was a barbarous assassination. It was notdifficult to find both an agent and an opportunity. As Hosen was proceedingto the Deecan in his palanquin, a Calmuck, of the name of Meer Heider, ap-])roached with a petition, and while Hosen was reading it, drew a dagger andstaljbed him to the heart. The whole camp was immediately tluown into oom-motion, and ultimately divided into two hostile bodies—the one comj^osed of theadherents of the Seyeds, and the other of the adherents of the conspirators. Chap. T. NIZAM-UL-MOOLK, VIZIER. 393 The latter, now openly countenanced by the emperor, who placed himself at ad. 1722.their head, proved victorioas, and drove the former from the field. Abdullah, ~ who was only on his way to Delhi when the intelligence reached him, endea-voured to maintain the struggle by setting up a new sovereign in the person of

Text Appearing After Image: Jhalledab.—Adapted from Solvjn, Les Hindous. one of the princes confined in the capital, and mustering a large army. It was,liowever, in a great measure undisciplined, and when the final encounter took])lace, offered Uttle more than a show of resistance. Abdallah was taken pri-soner; but, contrary to the usual practice on such occasions, was not put todeath; Mahomed Shah returned to Delhi, and, not at all abashed at the atro-cious means which he had employed, made a pompous celebration of his recoveredauthority. The office of vizier, conferred at first on Mahomed Ameer Khan, as a reward Nizam-ui- r 1 T 1 • • Mo..lk. for headmg the conspiracy, was, on his sudden death, reserved for Nizam-ul- vizkr.Moolk. He was still in the Deccan, and found so much emplo\anent in settlingits affairs, that nearly two years elapsed before he reached Deliii. On his amvalill January, 1722, he found everything in disorder. Mahomed Shah, occupiedonly with his pleasures, acted at the dictation of a fav

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