The nizam of the Deccan established himself at Hyderabad, comparatively near the headquarters of the peshwa.
There are also mines in the Hyderabad state from which a small amount of gold is produced.
Bhopal is the principal Mussulman state in central India, ranking next to Hyderabad among the Mahommedan states of India.
In the great Mahommedan state of Hyderabad the proportion is only 10%.
But the invaders appear to have acquired only an imperfect possession of the country, as it was again wrested from the Hindu princes of Orissa about the year 1571, during the reign of Ibrahim, of the Kutb Shahi dynasty of Hyderabad or Golconda.