Two parties from the first day
“Hoossein Nizam Shah succeeded his father in the thirteenth year of his age. His full-brother, the Prince Abdool Kadur, with the other princes, fled from the capital on the same day, and from that moment two parties were formed in the government: the foreigners and Abyssinians embracing the cause of Hoossein Nizam Shah, and the Deccanies (both Mahomedans and Hindoos) that of Abdool Kadur.” Two half-brothers fled to their uncle at Bijapur; a third laid claim to the throne from Parenda.
The archive’s Talikota essay carries the confederacy and the battle; the Ahmadnagar essay carries the illustrated Tarif-i Husain Shahi that his widow commissioned in his memory.