Muhammed Yusuf Khan enlisted under Chanda Sahib who was then the Nawab of Arcot. While staying in Arcot he fell in love with a 'Portuguese' Christian (a loose term for a person of mixed Indo-European descent or Luso-Indian) girl named Marcia / Marsha , and married her. In 1751, there was an ongoing scuffle between Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah, (who was the son of the previous Nawab of Arcot Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan hence the rightful claimant) and Chanda Sahib his relative and a pretender, for the throne of Arcot. The former sought the help of British and the latter the French. Chanda Sahib
S. V. Mir Ahmed Ali S. V. Mir Ahmed Ali S. V. Mir Ahmed Ali was a Shia Islamic scholar, religious leader. He was born on 15 July 1902 in Madras, British India. Mir Ahmed Ali was born into a family whose paternal ancestors were descendants from the Fourth Holy Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin, who called themselves Sajjadis. Originally from Hejaz, they migrated to India through Iran and settled down at Bijapur. His great-grandfather Mir Abdul Ali Sajjadi served as a commander in the Mughal Army and earned the distinction with the title Vafakhani for his loyalty to the crown. Thereafter, the members