Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.19.8

33.19.8

This much is only come to my knowledge, upon the affairs of Decan, that at this time, that is in the year 1195 of the Hedjira, Nizam-aaly-qhan, who richly deserves the title of second Assef-dja, enjoys now the dominion of most of the Provinces left him by his father, and governs with a firmness of command that does him honor. Only there is a report that in the war which rages now between the English and Haider-naic, in the Province of Arcat, and again between the English and the Marhattas in the western parts of Decan, Nizam-aaly is not so neutral as he looks, and that underhand he favorizes the Indian cause. But this I offer only as a surmise, as the truth of it is what God only may know.