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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
Abstract of the Life of Haider-Aly-Khan, &c. 
About the year 1728, Cuttulich Khan, Soubah or Governor General of the 
Decan, sent Termamond Khan, an officer of reputation, and a Patan by birth, to 
deprive the Nabob Abdoul Ressoul Khan of his government of Sirpi, which is a 
province on the frontiers of the kingdom of Maissour. That prince, determined to 
try the fortune of arms, assembled his troops, and went forth to meet his compe¬ 
titor; and, after a very bloody battle, the Nabob of Sirpi was defeated and slain. 
Among the dead was Fatty Naick, father of Haider Aly, an excellent warrior in 
the service of the Nabob. 
In consequence of this victory, the Patan Termamond Khan was received in 
Sirpi, and acknowledged as Nabob of that country. Fatty Naick left two sons and 
a daughter; the eldest was named Saber Naick and afterwards Ismael Saib, and 
the other Haider Naick, who was at that time a child of ten years old. He was bom 
at Divanelli, a fort situated between Oscota and Colar. They had an uncle, with 
whom the eldest entered into the service of the King of Maissour. As to Haider 
Naick, he was always kept in the vicinity of the districts where his-brother and his 
uncle served. At this early age he was bold and enterprising, untractable, and 
overbearing; he could neither read or write, nor would he receive instructions 
from any one. 
Carrasorri Nanderauz, brother-in-law of the King of Maissour, as well as his 
first Minister and General of his army, was one of those who had assembled the 
troops of their masters to join the Soubah Nazerzing, and enter with him into the 
Carnatic, in 1750, against Mustapha Jung, who designed to get possession of the 
Soubahship of the Carnatic, to which he laid claim under the will of the last Soubah, 
his uncle. 
Haider Naick, who was now a robust young man of about twenty-five years of age, 
assumed the name of Haider Aly; and being tired of the idle life which he had led, 
collected fifty or sixty Pions, or fusileers, with five or six horsemen, and proceeded 
