Sa'adatullah Khan I or Sa'adatullah Khan was
Nawab of Carnatic (r.1710–1732) and founder of
Nawayath dynasty. He was an adventurer from
Konkan in
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
.
Life
Mohammed Sayyid was the last mughal governor who was appointed as Nawab of
Carnatic with the title Saadatullah Khan I and moved his capital from Gingee to Arcot.
Like his predecessors, he also enjoyed control over all the territories of the Emperor, in the South. He also carried his contribution wars to the gates of
Srirangapatnam
Srirangapatna is a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganthaswamy temple consecrated at around 984 CE. Later, under the British rule the city wa ...
and collected "peshkash" or tribute from its rulers.
In 1711, he started demanding the five villages granted in 1708 to the
East India Company on the basis of insufficient grants. The English resisted and even prepared for a war. Saadatullah Khan demanded
Egmore,
Tondiarpet and
Purasawalkam also. But the matter was settled amicably by the good offices of Sunkurama and Rayasam Papaiya, the Company's Chief Merchants.
After the death of
Aurungazeb, due to the inability of his successor, the control of Delhi became weak. Having no children, Saadatullah Khan adopted his brother
Ghulam Ali Khan
Ghulam Ali Khan was a nineteenth century Indian painter in Delhi. His painting career took place over the course of more than four decades, from 1817 to 1852. He was the last royal Mughal painter, and also painted in the Company style for Brit ...
's son
Dost Ali Khan as his own and nominated him as successor. He had obtained the private consent of the Mughal Emperor for this step even without communicating his desire to the
Nizam of Deccan.
Though the Nizam claimed supremacy over the Nawab, his control became very weak and he could not prevent the office of the Nawab from becoming hereditary and so he wisely restricted himself to claiming the right of giving his formal approval to their appointment. Thus Saadatullah Khan became a senior and independent ruler of the Carnatic extending from the River Godicame on the North to the borders of
Travancore on the South and enclosed between the
Eastern Ghats and the Sea.
Governor Collect, obtained from him in 1717, the
firman
A firman ( fa, , translit=farmân; ), at the constitutional level, was a royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in an Islamic state. During various periods they were collected and applied as traditional bodies of law. The word firman com ...
for
Tiruvottiyur,
Sattangadu,
Kathiwakam,
Vysarpady and
Nungambakkam.
Titles held
*
Dewan under
Nawab Daud Khan.
See also
*
Nawabs of Arcot
References
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Nawabs of the Carnatic
Year of birth missing
1732 deaths
Indian Muslims
Mughal Empire