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Fall of Gingee and death of Nasir Jang

VictorFrench East India Company and Muzaffar JangMarquis de Bussy; Dupleix
1750vs
Nizam of HyderabadNasir Jang

Bussy’s capture of the great hill fort of Gingee, and the murder of Nasir Jang in his own camp three months later, put a French nominee on the throne of the Deccan.

Date: September–December 1750Where: Gingee (Senji), Villupuram district, Tamil NaduType: Battle
Photo: Dr. Sadashiv Shivade · CC BY-SA 4.0
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“Fall of Gingee and death of Nasir Jang.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/fall-of-gingee-1750/. Accessed .

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Hindu History. (2026). Fall of Gingee and death of Nasir Jang. Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/fall-of-gingee-1750/

Result

Bussy stormed Gingee, and when the French attacked his camp Nasir Jang was shot dead by the Pathan nawab of Kadapa; Muzaffar Jang was proclaimed Nizam.

01The rock fort taken

Gingee, three citadels on three hills, had stood siege by the Mughals for eight years under Chhatrapati Rajaram. In 1750 it fell to a single assault. Bussy, Dupleix’s best officer, marched on it with a French and sepoy force while Nasir Jang lay idle near Arcot. His men carried the lower town and then the hill forts, and the French flag went up where the Maratha one had flown sixty years before.

02Murder in the Nizam’s camp

Dupleix had been talking in secret with the Pathan nawabs of Kadapa, Kurnool and Savanur, who served in Nasir Jang’s army. On 16 December 1750 a French column attacked the Nizam’s camp. When Nasir Jang rode out to rally his men, the nawab of Kadapa shot him. His head was shown to the army, and Muzaffar Jang, till then a prisoner in the camp, was hailed as Nizam. He did not live long; the same Pathans killed him in February 1751.

Why it matters

French influence at Hyderabad reached its height, and Bussy remained the power behind the Nizam’s throne for most of the decade.

People 1

Chhatrapati RajaramRuler
1670–1700 CE; Chhatrapati 1689–1700

Chhatrapati Rajaram

Third Chhatrapati, who held Swarajya from Jinji

Places near the battlefield 8

Gingee (Senji) FortRuined
Sultanates, Vijayanagara and the kingdoms that stood

Gingee (Senji) Fort

Three granite hills bound by one wall, Rajagiri, Krishnagiri and Chandrayandurg, which Shivaji took in 1677 and from which Chhatrapati Rajaram held off a Mughal siege for nearly eight years.

Mandagapattu cave templeStanding
The Age of Great Kingdoms

Mandagapattu cave temple

A hall cut into a granite boulder in a village near Villupuram, with three shrines for Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. Its inscription says it is a temple made without brick, timber, metal or mortar: the first rock-cut temple of the Tamil country.

Panankatteeswarar (Netroddharaka Swami) Temple, Puravar Panangattur (Panaiyapuram)Standing
Cholas and the Southern Seas

Panankatteeswarar (Netroddharaka Swami) Temple, Puravar Panangattur (Panaiyapuram)

The palm-forest shrine beside the Chennai–Villupuram highway, rebuilt in stone by Rajendra Chola I. Sambandar sang it, and the highway was later turned aside to spare it.

Abhirameswarar Temple, TiruvamathurStanding
Sultanates, Vijayanagara and the kingdoms that stood

Abhirameswarar Temple, Tiruvamathur

The Lord worshipped by the cows, sung by Sambandar and Appar. The Devi has her own temple across the street.

Chandramouleeswarar Temple, TiruvakkaraiStanding
Cholas and the Southern Seas

Chandramouleeswarar Temple, Tiruvakkarai

A Chola temple on the Varaha river with a rare three-faced linga and the fierce Vakrakali, who slew the asura Vakra. Sambandar sang it.

Atulyanatheswarar (Oppillamaneeswarar) Temple, Arakandanallur (Araiyani Nallur)Standing
Cholas and the Southern Seas

Atulyanatheswarar (Oppillamaneeswarar) Temple, Arakandanallur (Araiyani Nallur)

The temple on the granite hill above the Pennai, facing Tirukkoyilur. Sambandar sang it, and from here, the temple says, he saw the hill of Arunachala. In 1896 the young Ramana Maharshi sat in this temple on his way to Tiruvannamalai.

Arunachaleswara Temple, TiruvannamalaiStanding
Cholas and the Southern Seas

Arunachaleswara Temple, Tiruvannamalai

The fire sthala of the Pancha Bhuta lingas, at the foot of Arunachala, the hill that is itself worshipped as Shiva. On Karthigai Deepam a great flame is lit on its summit.

Veerattaneswarar Temple, TirukkovilurStanding
Cholas and the Southern Seas

Veerattaneswarar Temple, Tirukkovilur

One of the eight Veerattanams, the shrines of Shiva’s heroic deeds: here he slew the asura Andhaka. Appar and Sambandar sang it, and the Nayanar king Meiporul ruled from this town.