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Ḥaydar ʿAlī Khān Bahādur (r. 1174–96/1761–82) was born between 1129/1717 and 1134/1722 in the province of Mysore. It was probably at the end of the tenth/sixteenth that his forebears, who were land managers and petty warriors, reached India by sea from an unknown homeland. During the reign of the Mughal emperor Muḥammad Shāh (r. 1131–61/1719–48), Ḥaydar’s father, Fatḥ Muḥammad (d. c.1140/1728), was a professional soldier in the service of Nawāb Saʿādatāllah Khān I of Arcot (r. 1122–1145/
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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