Akhbar-i Mahabbat 6.2

6.2

The French of Phuljari, having made a confederacy with Himmat Khan and other Afghan chiefs of the Carnatic, and servants of Nizamu-d daula, made them blind to the obligations they owed to their master, with the temptation of land and riches. These ungrateful people prepared to take cunning and deceitful measures, and joining with the Christian French of Phuljari, made an attack in the night of the 16th Muharram, 1164 A.H. (19th Nov. 1750 A.D.). They made Nawab Nizamu-d daula drink the red cup of martyrdom, and after his death the said Afghans and French raised Muzaffar Jang to the chiefship of the Dakhin. This Nawab, with a body of the Afghans, went to Phuljari, and having employed a great number of the Christian French, purchased their support of himself. In the same year he proceeded with an army of the Afghans and the French to Haidarabad, and passing through Arkat, entered the territory of the former tribe.