430 Political Events in the Carnatic,from 1564 to 1687. [No. 150. 



over ; this was the temporary government established by the Abyssinian 



Mallik-Amber, who not only successfully resisted the progress of the 



Mogul arms, but laid the governments of Beejapoor and Golconda under 



contribution, and chose the foundation of a new state at Ghurkee, 



which afterwards became better known by tlie name of Aurungabad. 



The death of his successor in 1 626, put an end to 

 A. D. 1626. , . . . . . . e ' - m 



this rising state in its infancy, which from the 



wisdom, moderation, and policy of this warrior and statesman, pro- 

 mised fair to introduce a more firm and temperate system of ad- 

 ministration into the south, which appears to have been at this time 

 in a state of the utmost distraction from the weakness of the several 



governments, the ill-judged ambition of their rulers, 

 menuVthe Moguls 1 !" and the encroachments of the Mogul armies, who 



now invaded the Deckan on three quarters. 



20. The strong fort of Dowlatabad falling into their hands in 1634, 



a regular Mogul government was established in the 



A. D. 1634. Deckan, of which Burhanpoor at first was the capital; 

 Fort of Dowlatabad r l ' 



reduced. but as their conquests became gradually extended, 



the seat of government was afterwards removed to the more central 



A. D. 1636. situation of Aurungabad, by the prince Aurung- 



zebe, who seems first to have put every engine in motion to reduce the 



Patan governments of Beejapore and Golconda, as the leading steps 



to the universal domination of the peninsula. 



21. But so short-sighted was the policy of these princes, that though 



.the consequence of the Mogul conquests must 



Mahomedan states of 



Deckan weakened by have been obvious, their time and their resources 

 were consumed in futile discussions, or ill ob- 

 served treaties, and their resources expended on vain projects or exhi- 

 bitions of useless pageantry,* and in supporting an extravagant pomp 



* The profusion of inestimable diamonds and other precious gems which adorned the 

 state of the Golconda king, is detailed minutely by European writers, and it is from 

 this exhibition that the celebrity of the mines of Golconda became so current in 

 Europe in the 16th and 17th century, as to be used as a common-place topic and 

 metaphor with our Poets in oriental similes. — See Havart for the vast riches of the Gol- 

 conda monarch displayed in his dress on a visit to the European factories on the coast. 

 See Valentyn also ; both these works contain much information of the state of the coun- 

 try at that period, in connexion with their object of an account of the state of the Dutch 

 establishments and commerce. 



