ABSTRACT
The conquest of Senji by Captain Bussy brought Nazir Jung to move his troops further into the south. In March 1750, Mohammad Ali Khan had left Trichinopoly to join Nazir Jung at Vazhudavur. Joseph Francois Dupleix tried to reason out with Nazir Jung that the Carnatic did not belong to Anwaruddin’s sons. By then, Nazir Jung and his troops had pulled away from Vazhudavur to Arcot, after being attacked in the darkness of night by the French and suffering heavy casualities. On 13 January 1751, Muzaffar Jung made his way to the Deccan, accompanied by the French commandant Bussy. Heeding to the request of Jung, Dupleix provided 2,000 sepoys and 300 European soldiers with six canons under Bussy to install the former as the Viceroy of Deccan. But on the way to the Deccan, Muzaffar Jung was killed in an engagement with the nawabs of Cuddapah and Kurnool on 14 February 1751.
