History of India by De La Fosse Claude Fraser 1868-

Author:De La Fosse, Claude Fraser, 1868-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: India -- History
Publisher: London : Macmillan & Co.
Published: 1917-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

176 HISTORY OF INDIA FOR HIGH SCHOOLS.

he likewise died within the year. Meanwhile the Empire was fast hastening to dissolution. The Mahrattas were granted formal permission to levy the chauth throughout the Moghul Deccan and also to take an additional ten per cent., and their absolute control of the Konkan was acknowledged; the Jodhpur Kaja, Ajit Singh, was made the viceroy of the subahs of Ajmir and Khandesh; Jay Singh of Amber was appointed Governor of Gujrat; and Chin Kalich Khan was given charge of Malwa; but all w^ere virtually independent. The Jats, too, had by this time established their independence in the territory now known as Bhartpur, between the Chambal and Agra. The control of the central authority was gone, and the people, without hope of redress from the oppressions of petty rulers, were sunk in apathy and despair.

Muhammad Shah. —The Syeds now selected another grandson of Bahadur Shah's, named Roshan Akhtar, and placed him on the throne in 1719, under the title of Muhammad Shah. But the end of the Syed domination was at hand. A rival, party had arisen, headed by the redoubtable Chin Kalich Khan, with whom was associated a Persian adventurer named Saadat Khan. In 1720, Chin Kalich, having been ordered to hand over the governorship of Malwa and appear at court, went into open rebellion, seized Khandesh and made himself master of the Moghi\l Deccan. He was secretly supported by the Emperor, who saw in him a means of deliverance from the yoke of the Syeds. Husain Ali, who marched with the Emperor to the Deccan to oppose him, was assassinated on the way, and the Emperor at once turned back towards Delhi again. Abdullah, the surviving brother, made desperate attempts to retain control of the situation by setting up a new puppet as rival to the Emperor, but he was shortly after defeated in the battle of Shahpiir, near Agra, and taken captive. Thus ended the domination of the Syeds. The revolution was complete, and Chin Kalich Khan was invited by the Emperor to come to Delhi and assume the office of Prime Minister. From henceforward he is better known by his titles of Asaf Jah and Nizam ul Mulk. -

The kingdom of Oudh founded.— Saadat Khan, for his services in the overthrow of the Syeds, was appointed

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