Safdar Ali Khan (died 2 October 1742)James Burgess, ''The Chronology of Modern India'', p. 182, Edinburgh, 1913 was the son of Dost Ali Khan. After the death of his father on the battlefield at

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in 1740, he escaped to

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. In the same year, he was installed as the

Nawab of Arcot The Carnatic Sultanate ( Persian: ; Tamil: ; Urdu: ) also known as Carnatic State or Arcot State was a kingdom in southern India between about 1690 and 1855, ruled by a Muslim nawab under the legal purview of the Nizam of Hyderabad, until thei ...

by the

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. There was total insecurity in the country during this period and Safdar Ali Khan took every possible measure to save his country and his family. He sent his son's wife to Madras for safety under the protection of the British, who securely lodged them in the Black Town. Khan was murdered in 1742 by his brother-in-law Nawab Murtuza Ali Khan, who declared himself as the

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