 His official name was "Nizam ud-Daula, Nawab Hasan Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Masulipatam".He entered the Nizam's service and appointed to a large mansab.A "firman" from him authorized the French Representative Fouquet, then chief of the Company at Machilipatnam to set up a "loge" at Yanaon in the year 1731.