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Did he do a deal with Nader? We will probably never know. The Nezam does seem to have been given an easier ride in the collection of tribute than the other great nobles; Nader’s warning to Mohammad Shah about the Nezam before he left could have been a dark joke, a double bluff.
Michael Axworthy • Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
Nizam ul-Mulk was an ingenious general but an even more talented statesman, using bribery and intrigue to achieve what his old-fashioned and outmoded Mughal armies could not. While breaking from the direct control of Delhi, he made a point of maintaining his nominal loyalty to the Mughal Emperor, and throughout the eighteenth century the people of
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
Some accounts say that the Nezam ol-Molk and Sa’adat Khan directly invited Nader to invade, and in later years the story that the Nezam in particular had betrayed his master, was widespread.
Michael Axworthy • Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
Ashurbanipal
The Nizam’s father, Nizam ul-Mulk, had founded the semi-independent state of Hyderabad out of the disintegrating southern provinces of the Mughal Empire in the years following 1724.
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
the Nizam and the Company together as allies, and which isolated the Company’s great enemy Tipu Sultan, who remained outside the alliance.