HyderabadArticle Free Pass Hyderabad, former princely state of
south-central India. It was founded by Nizam al-Mulk (Āṣaf Jāh),
who was intermittently viceroy of the Deccan under the Mughal
emperors from 1713 to 1721 and who resumed the post again under
the title Āṣaf Jāh in 1724, at which time he became virtually
independent. He founded the dynasty of the nizams (rulers) of
Hyderabad. The British and the French participated in the wars
of succession that followed his death in 1748. After temporarily
siding with Hyder Ali, the ruler of the Mysore principality (now
Karnataka state), in 1767, Nizam ʿĀlī accepted British
ascendancy in Hyderabad by the Treaty of Masulipatam (1768).
From 1778 a British resident and subsidiary force were installed
in his dominions. In 1795 Nizam ʿĀlī Khan lost some of his own
territories, including parts of Berar, to the Marathas. When he
turned to the French, the British increased their subsidiary
force stationed in his domain. The nizam’s territorial gains as
an ally of the Briti