Person · r. 1823 – 1839 (deposed)
Ghulam Rasul Khan
Aluf Khán's favourite sixth son, he was raised to the throne in 1823 after the intended successor Muzaffar Khán was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and was deposed by a British commission in October 1839 after amassing concealed military stores.
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- p. 40 · read as page image
During Munauwar Khán's lifetime the claims of his brother Dáúd Khán to succeed him were preferred to those of other brothers ... The choice, however, fell upon Muzaffar Khán. Muzaffar was then at Ádóni, but before leaving the British territory he murdered his wife at Ádóni and was made prisoner. He was in consequence confined in the fort of Bellary and died in 1879, after a long imprisonment of fifty-six years. His brother Ghulam Rasul Khán, who had been destined by his father Aluf Khán for the musnud in preference to his eldest son, was now raised to the throne.
- p. 41 · read as page image
The members of the commission arrived at Kurnool on the 12th September 1839 ... called upon the Nabob to hand over the fort to them. The Nabob was at first disinclined to yield, but seeing that the commission was firm in their demand, he evacuated the fort on the 18th October ... The Nabob was then carried to the British camp and despatched to Trichinopoly. Here it is remarkable that he began to attend a Christian chapel, and one day, while returning from it, he was assassinated by his own servant, whom he had the day before charged with theft.