September 22, 1687:
Golconda taken by Mughals after a long seige.
September 18, 1719:
Rosan Akhtar assumed the Mughal throne in Delhi with the title of "Muhammad Shah". Muhammad Shah ruled till his death in April 1748. His rise to throne came after the downfall of Farrukhsiyar, who after his deposition was cruelly killed, and a brief 9 months period under two young princes Rafi-ud-darjat and Rafi-ud-daula, and a proxy rule by Vazir Sayyad Abdullah and his brother. (All of this happened with military blessings of Bajirao, who secured from Mugal court, in return, legal firmans of mughal-recognized maratha authority to collect chauth, sardeshmukhi and swaraj in South)
October 1724:
Making good the opportunity of confusion in Delhi, mughal subedar of Hyderabad declares himself a sovereign under the title of Nizam-ul-Mulk and later Asaf-Jah. This also followed after blessings from Bajirao, whom Nizam secretly met at Chikalthana on 4th January 1721 and established some sort of undeclared understanding before declaring himself as sovereign of Hyderabad.
October 1727:
Nizam was however following the policy to undermine the growing power of Maratha nation, and continued his intrigues with rogue Maratha satraps, which resulted in the break out of long drawn was in October 1727.
After months of battle, Bajirao crushed all ambitions of Nizam and humiliated him by taking a surrender of Nizam's trapped and starving army at Palkhed in February 1728. This episode also showed the brilliant military leadership of Bajirao. He left Poona in September 1727, and ravaged Berar. But hearing of the Nizamâs descent on Poona, he swooped upon Burhanpur and Aurangabad to draw away Nizam-ul-mulk. His tactics proved to be correct.
But this was only first of the series of humiliations to the Hyderabad at the hands of Bajirao to whose genius Nizam was no match.
In 1738, Bajirav once again confronted the Nizam at Bhopal. The latter proved no match to the tactical superiority of Bajirav and found himself besieged at Bhopal by the Maratha forces. He had no alternative but to surrender. A formal treaty was signed on 7th January 1738, at Doraha Sarai under which the Nizam undertook to obtain for the Marathas the province of Malva under imperial seal. This was indeed a great triumph for the Marathas. Within a period of 30 years after the death of awranzib, this completed their seize of Gujarat and Malva, besides humbling the Nizam a second time.
In April 1740, Bajirav died, but not before inflicting another heavy defeat on Nasir Jung, the son of Nizam-ul-mulk in January-February of 1740. (Persian chroniclers of Nizam-ul-mulk such as Sayyad Muhammad AliâTarikhe Rahat Afza, Gulam AliâKhajana i Amira and others give a wrong versien of the battle between Nasir Jung and Bajirav, claiming that Bajirav was heavily defeated. Grant Duff in his History of the Marathas, adopts the same line. This view is positively wrong because if Nasir Jung was a victor, why did he cede Handia and Kharganv to Bajirav ? These two districts were handed over to the Marathas by the treaty of Mungi Sevganv signed on February 17th, 1740)
But the liquidation of this muslim power in south at the hands of Marathas continued even under the next Peshwas, Balaji Bajirao and Madhavarao all the way until the Maratha forces finally marched into the heart of Hyderabad, and Hyderabad state was in the end reduced to a third rate power by the end of that century.
THE MARATHAS AND THE NIZAM (gazeetter reprint)
And of course:
<b>18 September 1948 </b>
Indian army entered the Secunderabad Cantonment, after a simple 4-day Operation Polo which led to the last Nizam declaring a "unilateral ceasefire" and merger with the Union of India.
Golconda taken by Mughals after a long seige.
September 18, 1719:
Rosan Akhtar assumed the Mughal throne in Delhi with the title of "Muhammad Shah". Muhammad Shah ruled till his death in April 1748. His rise to throne came after the downfall of Farrukhsiyar, who after his deposition was cruelly killed, and a brief 9 months period under two young princes Rafi-ud-darjat and Rafi-ud-daula, and a proxy rule by Vazir Sayyad Abdullah and his brother. (All of this happened with military blessings of Bajirao, who secured from Mugal court, in return, legal firmans of mughal-recognized maratha authority to collect chauth, sardeshmukhi and swaraj in South)
October 1724:
Making good the opportunity of confusion in Delhi, mughal subedar of Hyderabad declares himself a sovereign under the title of Nizam-ul-Mulk and later Asaf-Jah. This also followed after blessings from Bajirao, whom Nizam secretly met at Chikalthana on 4th January 1721 and established some sort of undeclared understanding before declaring himself as sovereign of Hyderabad.
October 1727:
Nizam was however following the policy to undermine the growing power of Maratha nation, and continued his intrigues with rogue Maratha satraps, which resulted in the break out of long drawn was in October 1727.
After months of battle, Bajirao crushed all ambitions of Nizam and humiliated him by taking a surrender of Nizam's trapped and starving army at Palkhed in February 1728. This episode also showed the brilliant military leadership of Bajirao. He left Poona in September 1727, and ravaged Berar. But hearing of the Nizamâs descent on Poona, he swooped upon Burhanpur and Aurangabad to draw away Nizam-ul-mulk. His tactics proved to be correct.
But this was only first of the series of humiliations to the Hyderabad at the hands of Bajirao to whose genius Nizam was no match.
In 1738, Bajirav once again confronted the Nizam at Bhopal. The latter proved no match to the tactical superiority of Bajirav and found himself besieged at Bhopal by the Maratha forces. He had no alternative but to surrender. A formal treaty was signed on 7th January 1738, at Doraha Sarai under which the Nizam undertook to obtain for the Marathas the province of Malva under imperial seal. This was indeed a great triumph for the Marathas. Within a period of 30 years after the death of awranzib, this completed their seize of Gujarat and Malva, besides humbling the Nizam a second time.
In April 1740, Bajirav died, but not before inflicting another heavy defeat on Nasir Jung, the son of Nizam-ul-mulk in January-February of 1740. (Persian chroniclers of Nizam-ul-mulk such as Sayyad Muhammad AliâTarikhe Rahat Afza, Gulam AliâKhajana i Amira and others give a wrong versien of the battle between Nasir Jung and Bajirav, claiming that Bajirav was heavily defeated. Grant Duff in his History of the Marathas, adopts the same line. This view is positively wrong because if Nasir Jung was a victor, why did he cede Handia and Kharganv to Bajirav ? These two districts were handed over to the Marathas by the treaty of Mungi Sevganv signed on February 17th, 1740)
But the liquidation of this muslim power in south at the hands of Marathas continued even under the next Peshwas, Balaji Bajirao and Madhavarao all the way until the Maratha forces finally marched into the heart of Hyderabad, and Hyderabad state was in the end reduced to a third rate power by the end of that century.
THE MARATHAS AND THE NIZAM (gazeetter reprint)
And of course:
<b>18 September 1948 </b>
Indian army entered the Secunderabad Cantonment, after a simple 4-day Operation Polo which led to the last Nizam declaring a "unilateral ceasefire" and merger with the Union of India.