Later Mughals v1.c9.s10.1

v1.c9.s10.1

Perhaps the most important person in the group of men that rose into the very first rank upon Farrukh-siyar's accession, was Nizam-ul-mulk, now a man of nearly forty-three (lunar) years of age, who was already a distinguished soldier and provincial governor, even in Alamgir's reign. Hitherto, however, he had been overshadowed by his father, Ghazi-ud-din Khan Firuz Jang, who had died only two years before this time, and by his cousin, a much older man, Muhammad Amin Khan Chin Bahadur. But on Nizam-ul-mulk's appointment in 1125 H. (1713) to the six subahs of the Dakhin, he rose to a position of pre-eminence, which he never for one moment lost till his death in 1161 H. (1748), thirty-five years afterwards.