A History of the Mahrattas v1.c20.1

v1.c20.1

A.D. 1720.—THE measures which the Syuds adopted were the reverse of conciliatory; they were respected by the people, but they neither gained the good-will of the nobility nor of the pageant Emperor whom they had raised. Nizam Ool Moolk, governor of Malwa, who always meditated the means of aggrandizing himself, encouraged by these appearances of discontent and secretly incited by persons in the confidence of Mohummud Shah, formed the resolution of throwing off his dependence on the Syuds and of resisting their authority by possessing himself of the resources of the Deccan. He was aided in his projected scheme by Murhummut Khan, a disaffected officer of considerable talent, whom he had gained, and the awakened suspicions of the Syuds determined his purpose.