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 CHAP. III.

ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY OF THE NIZAM, AND GENERAL DESIGNATION BY NATIVES IN INDIA. AZEEM KHAN, AFTERWARDS KILLICK KHAN, ARRIVES AT DELHI, AND IS NOTICED BY SHAH JEHAN. ELEVATED BY THE EMPEROR AURUNGZEBE. — DIES FROM THE EFFECTS OF A WOUND AT BEEJAPOOR. HIS SON GHAZEE-OOD-DEEN's EMPLOYMENT UNDER THE MOGUL GOVERNMENT. SAVES THE ARMY BEFORE BEEJAPOOR UNDER COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR'S SON. SUBSEQUENT SERVICES AND DEATH. HIS SON NIZAM-OOL-MOOLK'S CAREER AND died.

I have brought the history of the country known as Hyderabad to the time when it comes for me to treat of the personal history of its present rulers and of their ancestors, though I have already sketched portions of the career of some of the latter in their capacity as viceroys under the Mogul empire.

The Asopheea dynasty, familiar to European ears by the designation of its representative, The Nizam, though not so old as the House of Hapsburg, nor with a lineage which can be traced, like that of the Guelphs, into "the dim twilight of fable," might be proud did it date its origin only with that Cheen Killick Khan — better known as Asoph Jah — who, when the barons of the empire were suppressed by the mistress of Jehandar Shah and her relations, evinced all the spirit and dignity of our great Earl Warwick ; " being rudely stopped in a narrow street to make way for a woman who had unbounded influence with the mistress, and through her with the