Hyder Ali assumed control of Mysore after overthrowing Khande Rao.

As Hyder Ali's control progressed, the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II became the pensioner of the East India Company by the year 1765.

Causing Hyder Ali to formally styled himself Sultan Hyder Ali Khan in his correspondence with the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.
Hyder Ali retained his title during the first Anglo-Mysore War that raged in 1766, and onwards.

He was very cautious in his diplomacy with the Nizam of Hyderabad, who was, according to an official Mughal firman, the sovereign of all Muslim-ruled territories in southern India.

The English and the Maratha Confederacy continued to refer to Hyder Ali and later his son Tipu Sultan as "Nabobs".
Hyder Ali assumed control of Mysore after overthrowing Khande Rao.
As Hyder Ali's control progressed, the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II became the pensioner of the East India Company by the year 1765.
Causing Hyder Ali to formally styled himself Sultan Hyder Ali Khan in his correspondence with the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. Hyder Ali retained his title during the first Anglo-Mysore War that raged in 1766, and onwards.
He was very cautious in his diplomacy with the Nizam of Hyderabad, who was, according to an official Mughal firman, the sovereign of all Muslim-ruled territories in southern India.
The English and the Maratha Confederacy continued to refer to Hyder Ali and later his son Tipu Sultan as "Nabobs".
Hyder Ali