(1567). This brother's son transferred the capital
to Chandragiri (about 1600). At this time the
throne of Chandragiri was occupied by Sri
Ranga, who gave the site of Madras city to the
English in 1639, and whom the Muhammadan
historians style Sri Ranga Ráyal, zamindar of Karnatak.[1] There was now a race between the Golkonda and Bijapur kings for the absorption
of his kingdom; the two jaws began rapidly to
close from the north and the south upon the
doomed Karnatak. In this work of conquest a
most conspicuous part was played by Mir Jumla,
the wazir of Golkonda.
Muhammad Said, known to history as Mir Jumla,[2] was a Syed of Ardstan in Persia, and Mir Jumla, prime minister of Golkonda, the son of an oil-merchant of Isfahan. Leaving his native country in youth, he like other Shiah adventurers, sought his fortune at the Courts of the Deccani Sultans who belonged to his sect, (1630). As a diamond merchant he
- ↑ Sewell in Sketch of Dynasties, (110—112) calls him Sri Ranga III, and in A Forgotten Empire, (233-234) Sri Ranga VI. Adab 33b. S. Krishna-swami Aiyangar's Ancient India, 296.
- ↑ This account of Mir Jumla is based on Tavernier, i. 170, 259, 273, 284—293 295, Bernier, 16-19. Gribble, i. 269—271, Masir-ul-umara, iii. 530—555 (life of Mir Jumla). For his character see Talish's Fathiyya-i-ibriyya (Conquest of Assam).
