1844.] Political Events in the Carnatic, f torn 1564 to 1687. 429 



the final reduction of their country. The Bednore family also in this 

 interval of universal confusion consolidated their territories along the 

 Western Ghauts, and further extended their possessions from their 

 first small establishment at Caladee, in the end of Ram Raaz's time, 

 down to the coast of Honore, and afterwards to the limits of Malabar 

 south ; they resisted and opposed successfully the further advance of the 

 Beejapoor forces along the sea coast, who in the meantime established 

 themselves in the districts of Panch-mahl, lying between Goa and 

 Honore, where their officers established their authority, and constructed 

 forts (as is already related) to support their acquisitions, and further 

 their designs on that side, and probably to keep Goa in check at the 

 same time. The provincial administration of the Beejapoor government 

 does not ever appear to have been carried further south than the limits 

 of Honore ; as the country from thence to the borders of Malabar was 

 held by the native Rannees of Garsoppa, and other petty chiefs, till 

 they fell under the power of the Bednore family. 



17. For nearly 50 years, a clear connected series of historical events 

 A. D. 1645. is yet wanting for the state of that side of the Car- 

 wanting here^brTear- na ^ dominion, and the only light is derived from 

 1> 50 years. an attentive comparison of isolated facts, detailed 

 in series of Memoirs now collected. 



18. The acquisition of the fort and island of Seringapatam by the 

 A D 1609 Wuddier of Mysore is one of the most remarkable 



Seringapatam in of the events, as the cessation of the ancient Rayel 



this time acquired 



by the Skiddier fa- government above the Ghauts may be dated thence- 

 forward, as well as the first permanent establishment 

 of a new state that afterwards acquired considerable influence in the 

 affairs of the Carnatic. 



19. A more detailed account of this family and state,* will explain 



this further, but of other causes that in the mean 



The progress of the . •% « .» n » l j ,i 



Mahomedan conquest time impeded the Mahomedan progress in the 

 retarded by their own t) d f their divisions among themselves, 



intestine divisions. ' ° ' 



one instance occurs too remarkable to be passed 



* This subject being taken up by a hand fully adequate to the subject, it might be 

 unnecessary here to notice the Mysore transactions, were they not occasionally neces- 

 sarily involved in a general view of the state of the Carnatic. Some anecdotes and 

 facts connected with their history have also come to light since Colonel Wilks had col- 

 lected his materials. 



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