434 Political Events in the Camatic, from. 1564 to 1687. [No. 150. 



lity and political sagacity, than had hitherto marked the traces of these 

 invaders. 



29. In the Turkish origin of this family ; and the succession of ad- 

 Remarks on the venturers they encouraged from Turkey, Arabia, and 



Beejapoor Govern- J n rf ' 



ment, supported by Persia, may be traced perhaps some of these distin- 



a foreign militia and . . . 



feudal tenure. guishing traits. The Timaryet system* seems to 



have been followed in their extensive jagheers to their munsubdars 

 and chiefs, some of whom held very extensive tracts, (as Savanoor, 

 Ankola, &c); while the introduction of a body of foreign militia, the 

 Hubshees, seem to have been borrowed from the Mamelukes and Jani- 

 zaries, who in both cases were formed from slaves, or prisoners of war, 

 purchased when young, and reared up in all the strictness of military 

 subordination. We find accordingly, that the Hubshees furnished some 

 of the ablest statesmen and warriors of the state ; purchased when 

 young, through the medium of the Arabian traders, they knew no 

 other country than that which reared them; no other lord than him 

 who cherished their youth. Educated about the court in the religion 

 and in the accomplishments of the sovereign, they became attached to 

 the prince from personal gratitude, from respect, and from the power of 

 early habits ; and in various instances, manifested a zeal and spirit of 

 loyalty, highly honorable in their patrons and to themselves, and use- 

 ful to their adopted country. 



30. Not in this instance alone was the policy of the Bejapoor state 



conspicuous, a superior knowledge of political fi- 

 economy of that nance seems also to have distinguished its genera 

 Brahmins" ' chiefly administration. Their institutions for regulating the 

 employed. country breathed a spirit moderate and mild, and 



well adapted to cherish agriculture, nor was commerce neglected ; and 

 they very sagaciously availed themselves of the acute and subtle 

 genius of that classt of their native subjects, which is so well accommo- 

 dated to the arrangements of finance and of political economy. The 



♦This suggestion is mentioned not without considerable hesitation; and without 

 clearer information on the subject, it might be presumptuous to offer it, any further than 

 as a conjecture founded on concurring resemblance. 



f In Ferishta's Deckan, Vol. I, p. — is a remarkable instance of the inconveni- 

 ence to which these native financiers were exposed, through the suspicions of the less 

 enlightened and ambitious nobles of Beejapoor. 



