280 FRENCH INDIA AT ITS ZENITH. chap, circumstances, Bussy displayed the greatest wisdom. m ' , Feeling that to secure French interests it was necessary 1751. for him to act, and act on the moment ; that it was essential that the chiefs and the army should not be left in doubt as to their ruler, but that a man should be appointed equally agreeable to them and to the French, Bussy, with the concurrence of the principal officers of the army, set aside the infant son of MuzafFar Jang, and at once proclaimed the next brother, of the previous Subadar, Nasir Jang, Salabat Jang by name,* as Subadar of the Dakhan. From a throne to a prison, from a prison to a throne, constituted in those days a condition of affairs which might almost be termed noimal. Salabat Jang was no exception to the rule. He was taken from confinement to rule over thirty-five millions of his fellow-creatures ! The first act of the new Subadar was to confirm all the concessions that his predecessor had granted to the French ; his next was to add to them. In gratitude, we may suppose for his elevation, he joined to the French possession Machlipatan the towns of Nizam- patan, a town and port in the Krishna district ; of Kondavir in the same district ; of Almanava, and of Narsapur in the Godavari district, with the lands thereto attaching. He ordered the rebuilding of all the factories at Yanaon which his brother, Nasir Jang, had destroyed; and finally he presented to Dupleix the territory of Mafuzbandar in the district of Krikakolam (Chicakol). A few days later the army resumed its route, stormed on March 18 the fortress of Karnul, the residence of the deceased rebel Nawwab of that title ; bought off the threatened hostilities of the Maratha, Balaji Baji Rao, by a present of two lacs of rupees ; reached Haidarabad on April 12 ; remained there a month, and finally made
- Vide Elliott's History of India His full name was " Amirii-l-Mam-
by its Own Historians, vol. viii., p. alik Salabat Jang," or, "the lord of 392. Salabat Jang was the third kingdoms, Salabat Jang." son of Asaf Jah (Nizamu-l-Mulk).
