The incidental war in INDIA, carried on by the ENG- The military and naval operations in INDIA, between the ENGLISH, FRENCH, and DUTCH, in the years 1757, INTRODUCTION. SECTION I. An abridgment of the hiftory of the emperors of INDOSTAN, from TAMERLANE in 1398, to his defcendant MAHOMED SHAH in 1730. The power of NIZAM AL MULUCK, viceroy of the DECKAN; with remarks on the inhabitants, the title of Soubahdar, and the authority of the Nabobs under bim. The conquest of INDOSTAN, by NADIR SHAH, in 1738; and the declenfion of the GREAT MOGUL's power. Of the CARNATIC, and its Nabobs, from SUDET ALLEE CAWN in 1732, to ANAVERDY CAWN in 1743. The attacks made by the Nabobs on the GENTOO princes, till the invafion of the MORATTOES in 1740: account of thefe invaders; their conquests and devaftations in the Carnatic and Trichinopoli: their expulfion by NIZAM AL MULUCK; and bis appointment of ANAVERDY CAWN to be Nabob of the CARNATIC, in 1744; which gave rife to the WAR in INDIA between the ENGLISH and FRENCH. TH THE Mahometan princes had established themfelves in feveral parts of India, long before Tamerlane, the Tartar prince of Samarcand, penetrated there in 1398, when he dethroned the Sultan Mahmoud, and left the empire of Indoftan to his own pofterity. Tamerlane died in 1404, and his defcendants erected the new Dynafty of Mahometan B emperors, emperors, called the Great Moguls, one of whom, named Shah Gehan, was depofed by his fon Aurengzebe, and died in 1666. Aurengzebe maintained himself in the throne near fifty years, conquered many provinces, and died in 1707. He was fucceeded by his fon Bahadar Shah, and the blood of Tamerlane continued to be held in too great veneration throughout the empire, to permit any others than his defcendants to entertain the thoughts of afcending the throne with impunity: but fome of them only accomplished the ceremony of being placed on the throne of Delli, to entitle them to be ranked in the lift of its monarchs. By that dependence on the great men of the empire, to which their contefts for the crown had reduced the defcendants of Aurengzebe, the emperors elected, although defpotic with the multitude, afcended the throne in bonds, and were in reality only the flaves of their minifters, who ruled the empire as they pleafed; while the people faw the glare of a fovereign, whofe commands extended no farther than among the women of his feraglio. Thefe minifters depofed and murdered Furruckfhir in 1719; after which, they placed on the throne his coufingerman Raffeih Al Dirjat, whom they alfo murdered, after he had reigned only three months. His brother Raffeih Al Dowlet was the fucceffor; but died foon after, and it is fufpected he was poifoned. This paved the way for Mahomed Shah * to the imperial dignity. He was fon of Jehan Shah, one of the three princes who perished in contending for the crown with their brother Jehandar Shah; fo that a fon of each of these three unfortunate princes became emperor only to be as unfortunate as his father; but the greatest humiliation, if not * Or Shah Hamet. the |