Governor of Oudh and Faujdar of Lucknow
Nizam-ul-Mulk's documented Mughal career begins under Bahadur Shah I, decades before he became the effective ruler of the Deccan. The register records his first major charge: "When Shah 'Alam ascended the throne, he received the title of Khan Dauran Bahadur, and was appointed as Governor of Oudh and Faujdar of Lucknow; in those days the Faujdar of that city was appointed separately from the Court" (vol. II, p. 410).
News from Delhi, and death near Burhanpur
In 1161 A.H. (1748), with the Deccan settled after the Carnatic campaigns and the capture of Balkonda, the register records that "news was received of the advance of Ahmad Khan Abdali from Kabul to Delhi. The Nawab, as a matter of policy, started from Aurangabad towards Burhanpur" (vol. II, p. 416). At Burhanpur he learned the invader had been turned back, but "at this time Nawab Asaf Jah became seriously indisposed" (vol. II, p. 416); on 27th Jummada I he set out again for Aurangabad, then halted in tents near Burhanpur as the illness worsened. He died there on 4th Jummada II, 1161 A.H. (21 May 1748); the register records that "at the time of the lifting of his dead body, the cry that arose from the people shook the whole world" (vol. II, p. 417), and his bier was carried to the shrine of Shah Burhan-ud-Din Gharib for burial.