Berar

The greater were Ahmadnagar, Bijapur and Golconda, the lesser Bidar and Berar.

Railways were built in the newly acquired state of Berar to shift raw cotton for export to Bombay.

Berar had already been annexed by Ahmednagar in 1572, and Bidar was absorbed by Bijapur in 1609.

“The Berar treaty,” he told Sir Charles Wood, “is more likely to keep the nizam on his throne than anything that has happened for fifty years to him,” while at the same time the control thus acquired over a strip of territory intervening between Bombay and Nagpur promoted his policy of consolidation and his schemes of railway extension.

As representative of the landowners of Berar and Bengal he took an important part in the discussion on the Bengal Tenancy Bill.