"This is absolutely impossible!" the Governor-General of India, Cornwallis, immediately exclaimed. "Vijayanagara now belongs to the East India Company."
England had spent a huge amount on this war, having only occupied the northwestern half of two provinces of Mysore and the trade along the western coast of India had been stagnant for more than half a year, they were already at a loss, how could they possibly give up their spoils of war?
Sultan Tipu ignored him and looked instead at the Hyderabad Chancellor, Abuzzam, "Are you just going to watch the people of Vijayanagara be ruled by heathens?"
Hyderabad and Mysore were both Islamic, and decades ago, they had even formed an alliance.
Abuzzam also knew that Sultan Tipu was trying to divide him from England, but Hyderabad had lost more than 30,000 soldiers for England in this war. It was only right that they received Vijayanagara as compensation.