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were placed in the forts, independent in some measure of the civil 

 governors; and lands in jagheer were granted to the chief military 

 officers, and to the killadars, who were obliged by the nature of their 

 tenures, to maintain a certain number of troops ready for the service 

 of the state. Thirteen fortresses are enumerated in the address which 

 Ranadoolah sent on this occasion to the sovereign, requiring killadars 

 and troops to be sent to garrison them ; and we find that cazies* were 

 at the same time sent from the presence to administer justice accord- 

 ing to the maxims of the Mahomedan jurisprudence. 



27- Ranadoolah Cawn on his departure, committed the important 

 Ranadoolah leaves charge of Soobadar of the province to Shahjee, a 



Shahjee as his suc- 

 cessor. Marhatta officer, who appears to have been high in 



his estimation and confidence; a remarkable instance of this is stated 



in the Memoirs of Sheevajee, of the noble and extraordinary effort of 



the Mahomedan chief that saved the devoted Shahjee from the cruel 



punishment awarded by the intrigues of that weak court. 



28. It might be esteemed remarkable, that the firstt Mahomedan 



And the first Ma- government established in this important province 



homedan govern- s h uld be committed to a Hindoo chief, did not the 



ment regulated by 



financial principles, distinguishing traits of the system of administration 



on a system novel in mi 



the southern pro- that was adopted by the Turkish founders of Beeja- 

 poor explain, what is otherwise not very reconcilable 

 to the general spirit of fanaticism that marked the first Mahomedan 

 invaders, conscious of the difficulty of a body of isolated adventurers 

 maintaining themselves in the midst of a foreign land, amidst millions 

 possessing opinions and habits of life so very opposite to their own, 

 and at constant variance with their brother states on the North and 

 East. They seem to have early adopted a system evincing more libera- 



* Colar Memoir, &c- Some of the sunnuds granted to these cazies still remain. 

 Three copies are in the collection of grants. 



f It mightbe deemed remarkable, that only three years previous to this date, the first 

 grant of territory was issued to the English factory at Madras by the acknowledged 

 sovereign of the Carnatic, the representative of the ancient legitimate Hindoo govern- 

 ment, Sree liunga-Rayel, then residing at Chundragerry. The English government 

 then is actually three years prior to any established Mahomedan government of the 

 South. — See Translation of a Memoir, Appendix No. 1. 



