A History of the Mahrattas v1.c27.13

v1.c27.13

⁵ [Haidar Alī (Hyder Ally), born 1722, was an officer of the Hindu Wodeyar Government of Mysore, and secured the favour of Nanjarāj, the minister, by organizing a small body of well-equipped troops. In 1755, at the age of thirty-three, he was appointed commandant of Dindigul, and later received as a jāgīr the district of Bangalore, and became commander-in-chief of the Mysore army. (O.H.I., pp. 483, 484.)]