THE NIZAM:
HIS HISTORY
AND
RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER I.
SITUATION AND SIZE OF COUNTRY.—ORIGINAL HINDOO OCCUPATION.— EARLY MAHOMMEDAN CONQUERORS of HINDOOSTHAN.—THEIR CONQUESTS IN THE DECCAN.—MAHOMMEDAN DYNASTIES OF THE DECCAN. PROCEEDINGS OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR AND OF THE EMPEROR SHAH JEHAN.—SACK OF HYDERABAD BY THE MOGULS UNDER THE LATTER EMPEROR.
If the curious reader can lay out before him the Map of India which accompanies the first two volumes of The Wellington Despatches, published in 1852, he will at once General - see the distribution of the pleasant lands of India in the last year of the last century. Within what is properly called the Peninsula he will observe nearly its half, and that in the centre with a tendency to eastward, coloured blue. That blue portion is the country of The Nizam. Yet it is not all that he had only a half-century earlier—for, by the Treaty with the British Government of 1759, he ceded Masulipatam and other districts; by the Treaty of 1766, the Northern Circars; and by the death of its
