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Rh and connecting himself closely with the Imperial Government. In 1747 he received the post which Sadat Khan had so much coveted, and was made Vazier, or Minister of State, to the Emperor. From this date the title of Subahdar ceases, and the Governor of Oudh is called the Nawab Vazier, a combination of two titles of Nawah of Oudh and Vazier of the Empire; the latter title was bestowed by the Emperor of Delhi.

Munsur Ali Khan was the founder of Fyzabad, where he resided, besides making it his military head-quarters. He built the rampart and moat that surrounded the city and had several standing camps near it; so that it can hardly be denied that, in his reign, Fyzabad, and not Lucknow, was the Capital of Oudh. He was an able ruler, and his financial administration was successful.

The Nawab died in 1753, of fever, and his remains were removed to Delhi for interment. The mausoleum of Sufdar Jang is well-known as one of the finest structures of the kind at Delhi.

Munsur Ali Khan was succeeded by his son Shuja-ud-daula, who was appointed Vazier by Shah Alam. Of all the Oudh Nawabs he seems to have formed the largest plans for aggrandizing himself and his province at the expense of the decaying Moghul Empire. Like his predecessors he was pre-eminently a soldier, and was for a great part of his rule engaged in wars. In 1763, the English having quarrelled with their own eleve, Mir Kasim, Governor of Bengal, Shuja-ud-daula took the field in his favour and advanced upon Patna, taking with him the fugitive Moghul Emperor, Shah Alam II, and the exiled Nawab of Bengal. Defeated by the British, in successive battles at Patna and Buxar, the Nawab fled to Bareilly, while the unfortunate Emperor joined the British Camp.

By the treaty of 1765, which followed this event, Korah and Allahabad, which hitherto formed part of the Oudh Viceroyalty, were made over to the Emperor for the support of his dignity and expenses, all the remaining territories being restored to Shuja-ud-daula, who, reduced to extremities, had thrown himself upon the generosity of the British Government. It had been intended to deprive him of his territories, but Lord Clive, on a personal interview, reversed the decision, and reinstated him on the condition of his paying the expenses of the war.

He fixed his head-quarters at Fyzabad and attracted commerce to the place, so that, with its great natural