Hyder Ali land concessions in exchange for peace. The British countered with an aggressive list of demands that included payments of tribute to the Nizam and larger land concessions to the British East India Company. Hyder Ali specifically refused to deal with Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah, his nemesis in the Carnatic. The negotiations failed to reach common ground. On 3 October, Hyder Ali, while moving his army from Guuramkonda back toward Bangalore, surprised a small garrison of Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah's men at a rock fort call Mulwagal, near Ooscota. British reinforcements were sent, and Colonel Wood was able to recover the
Syed Muhammed Abul Faiz Syed Muhammed Abul Faiz Syed Muhammed Abul Faiz (known as SMA Faiz) is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 26th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka serving from September 2002 until January 2009. Though an academic and a scientific researcher by profession, Faiz was also the chairman of the Public Service Commission of Bangladesh before his tenure as the vice-chancellor. With a bygone ancestry in the district of 24 Parganas at West Bengal State in India, Faiz was brought up in Dhaka mostly. His father AKKB Syed Muhammed Hasan Ali did his graduation from the Presidency College in India.