The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.47

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They now returned to Aurangābād, where Bussy's manager Haidar Jang completely deceived Shāh Nawāz, seduced Nizām ‘Alī's army by paying 800,000 rupees, and at last, on 5 April, 1758, caused Shāh Nawāz to be arrested. Salābat Jang himself was placed under a French guard. Haidar was planning to imprison Nizām ‘Alī and to seize the supreme power, when he himself was treacherously murdered by that prince (12 May), who escaped the vengeance of the French brigade by "marvellous skill and bravery". A riot raged through the city, in the course of which Shāh Nawāz and his son were murdered in prison by Lachhmanā, an officer of the French corps. The new regent Basālat Jang (the fifth son of Āsaf Jāh) proved a cypher. The French star waned as the English asserted their armed superiority in the Carnatic in the Seven Years’ War. These disasters reacted on the French position at the Nizām's court. Bussy was recalled by Lally to the Madras coast (June, 1758). Nizām ‘Alī came back to Hyderābād, and after some quarrel among the three brothers succeeded in being invested with all power *vice* Basālat Jang dismissed (June, 1759).