The History of Hydur Naik: Otherwise Styled Shums Ul Moolk, Ameer Ud Dowla, Nawaub Hydur Ali Khan Bahadoor, Hydur Jung; Nawaub of the Karnatic Balaghaut |
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Afghans Alí Ruza Khan Arkat arrived artillery attack baggage Balaghaut Balapoor Bangalore Barh Mahl batteries battle besieged Brahman brave Busálut Jung camp cavalry charge Chief commandant conquered conquest defeat despatched detachment Droog Dulwai elephants encamped enemies fire force forts fortune fursungs Futteh Muhammad garrison gave orders Ghaut Gooti guns Gurh heart Hijri hill hill fort honour hundred Hybut Jung Hydur Alí Hydurabad Jageer Jamadárs Karnatic Khodadad Killadár Kirpa Kolar Kuzzaks lakhs lakhs of rupees lion Madhoo Rao Mahrattas marched matchlock Meer Alí Ruza ment Morar Rao Muhammad Alí Khan Mukhdoom musket musketry Mysore Náík Nawaub Bahadúr Nawaub's troops night Nizám Nuggur Nundi Raj officers Paigah Paishkush plunder Poligar Pondicherry Poona Prince prisoners Puttun Raja returned rupees Sáhib sent Seringaputtun servants soldiers Souba Sura sword Syud Tanjore tents thousand foot thousand horse thousand regular infantry Tippoo took town Trichinopoly Trimuk Vakeel Vellore victorious waub whole
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Page 472 - Polygers, north of Arkat ; and five thousand horse towards Madras for the same purpose, and to alarm the people there. He next sent for some of his officers, and gave them strict orders for the regulation of their departments, and afterwards swallowed a little broth, and laid [lay] down to rest. The same night his ever-victorious spirit took its flight to paradise.
Page 383 - ... for the purpose of barter, were collected in one place. Amongst the rest was the whole of the property of a certain Muhammad Mokrim, a man of the Bohra tribe (the Bohras are a tribe of newly converted Mussulmans, residing mostly in the North Western provinces of India, they are chiefly merchants and traders), the chief of all the merchants, and the owner of three or four merchant ships...
Page 442 - ... received a severe blow ; a cannon-ball from one of the nawaub's guns having broken the leg of Colonel Stuart, and thereby caused the commander a deep affliction ; but, more than this, another shot also struck the horse of Syfe ul Moolk, by which he, Syfe ul Moolk, was thrown on the ground, and his brave heart split in twain. In short, it went very near that the stone of defeat...
Page 474 - ... muskets, jewels, horses, elephants, or invigorating medicines. His understanding was wonderful. He entertained, to a boundless extent, the pride of rank and station, and the noble desire to attempt great things ; but of foolish pride, or vain glory, he had none ; he had expelled them from his mind. He was a slave to the regulation of his working establishments or manufactories, and, if any one of the officers or overseers of the works was indolent or neglectful, he sent for him, and punished...
Page i - Moolk, Ameer ud Dowla, Nawaub Hydur Ali Khan Bahadoor, Hydur Jung; Nawaub of the Karnatic Balaghaut : Written by Meer Hussein Ali Khan Kirmani. Translated from an original Persian MS-. in the Library of Her Most Gracious Majesty, by Col. W. Miles, of the Honourable East India Company's Service. 8vo. pp. 544, with map, boards, 16s. [301 MILLER.— The Voice of Christ to the Churches, considered in a Course of Lectures, Expository and Practical...
Page 475 - Hyder's government, small or great, were superintended by himself in person ; insomuch that even leather, the lining of bullock bags, or tent walls, and strands of rope, all passed under his inspection, and were then deposited in his stores. To horse dealers he gave presents of gold and raiment, besides the value of the horses he purchased ; and so liberal was he, that if, on the road through his territories, any horse by chance died, he paid half the price of the horse, after the arrival of the...
Page 510 - Hydur hesitates not to say, that " cutting off the nose and ears of any person in his territories was the commonest thing imaginable ; and killing a man there was thought no more of than treading on an ant.
Page 414 - English gentlemen," replied the Nawab, "strongly insisted that one European or man of their country was equal to twenty men of this country, as had been often seen, and why should money be thrown away in employing such useless men ? Relying on deceiving words like these, I have disbanded my troops.
Page 472 - He then directed that water should be made ready for him to bathe ; and although the Physician objected to his bathing, they turned him out of the tent, and the Nawaub bathed. Then, having put on clean clothes, he repeated some prayer or invocation on his fingers, rubbing his face, and at the same time despatched two thousand horse to plunder and ravage the country of the...
Page 11 - Karnatics ; yet, that he would, in a short time, suffer the pain and grief of becoming an orphan ; that is, his father would be taken from him. On hearing this prediction, his relations, with one accord, determined that the child should be fed with the milk of death, and laid to sleep in the cradle of eternity.