Second Carnatic War (1749-54)

Dupleix

Dupleix turned into secret alliances with Chanda Saab and Mujaffarjung. On 3rd May, the three allaying parties defeated and killed Anwar ud din in the battle of Ambur near Vellore. The son of Anwar ud din, Mohd Ali fled to Trichanapalli.

The English tried to form alliance with Nasirjung and Mohd Ali but could not succeed .

In Dec 1705, Nasirjung was killed and Mujaffarjung was made subedar of Deccan by the French. Mujaffarjung appointed Dupleix as the governor of the whole Mughal territory of South of river Krishna and gave the state near Pondicherry and coast of Orissa as Jagir. In return, Duplex gave Mujaffarjung services of his best officer Busi along with the platoon of his army. (It was the first subsidiary alliance formed by Duplex in India).

But the downfall of French was not far away. Mohd Ali, son of Anwar ud din had taken shelter in Trichannapalli, to which Chanda Saab and French could not win. Clive attacked Areot so as to reduce pressure of Trichannapalli and this attack was successful, Chanda Saab was killed by the king of Tanjore. The defeat in Trichanapali proved to be the doomsday of Duplex and he was called back to France. Thus the second stage of war ended and the territorial expansion was dominated by English and Mohd Ali became Nawab of Karnataka and Hyderabad was still in hold of French.