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 346 BUSS* TO 1754, CHAPTER VIII. BDSSY TO 1754. chap. The vigour and energy displayed by Bussy at Ambur '_ a, and Jinji, his prompt action at Kadapah, alike on the 1751. field of battle as after the death of Muzaffar Jang, his subsequent march through the entire breadth of the Dakhan, and his triumphant entry into Aurangabad on June 29, 1751, have been already adverted to.* What there then remained to him to accomplish, and how he accomplished it we have still to record. But in order that we may obtain a complete and comprehensive view of the situation — that, transport- ing our minds to the past, we may gaze at a panorama from which the light of the present is excluded, so as to see the India of that day exactly as India then was — we purpose in the first place to give a brief retro- spective sketch of the country known as the Dakhan, defining its original connexion with, and its degree of dependence upon, the empire of the Mughals. The term Dakhan, or more correctly Dakhin, though embracing in its literal meaning the whole of the southern part of India, was always held by the Muham- madans, and has been since held by ourselves, to com- prehend only that portion of southern India lying between the Narbada and the Krishna. After the extinction of the Tughlik dynasty in 1399, there arose from the ruins of the Delhi monarchy six indepen- dent sovereignties south of the Narbada. These were the states of Golkonda, Bijapur, Aurangabad, Bidar,
 * Chapter VI.