The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.18

v4.c21.18

When in 1736–37 the Marāthās carried their depredations to the gates of Delhi, the emperor repeatedly wrote to Āsaf Jāh to come to his aid. The Nizām reached Delhi on 13 July, 1737. His defeat by Bājī Rāo at Bhopāl (December, 1737) and the humiliating treaty (16 January, 1738) by which he extricated himself, his passive participation in the battle of Karnāl with Nādir Shāh (24 February, 1739), and his quarrels with the emperor’s new favourites after the departure of Nādir, do not belong to the history of the Deccan and have been dealt with elsewhere. A second time despairing of reforming his master's government or even of preserving his own honour in that worthless court, he finally left Delhi on 7 August, 1740, and returned to Burhānpur on 19 November.