The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.3

v4.c21.3

When in 1724 Nizām-ul-Mulk went to the Deccan for the last time as its governor, he dropped the curtain on one act of his career and began a new one. All his aspirations for restoring the power and prestige of the Mughul empire and guiding the government from its centre, as its minister, were abandoned, for he felt that the mean and jealous favourites of the fickle emperor would not let him do anything, and he was not the man to agree to a passive sleepy existence like Muhammad Amīn Khān, his predecessor, or Muhammad Amīn's son, his successor. He thus set out for the Deccan, determined to make it a stage on which he could at least play a man's part and build up a political structure that would justify his title of "Regulator of the Realm".