438 Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 to 1687. QNo. 150. 



39. The Beejapoor generals having reduced or expelled most of the 

 A. D. 1644. petty Polligars, as Tavar Kaira, Bangalore, Ruttingury, 

 A. s. 1566. £ c t jj e y seem now t0 nave Deen prevented from wholly 



reducing the remaining Hindoo chiefs, by their own intestine wars at 

 home, their contentions with the states of Golconda and of Ahmednug- 

 gur, and from the necessity of watching the progressive movements of 

 the Moguls from the North. 



40. Shahjee was recalled* within a very few years to Beejapoor, in 

 Shahjee recalled consequence, as it is said, of the disturbances raised by 



to Beejapoor. hig sQn SeVa j ee in the district of Poonah, who hav- 

 ing seized upon several of the forts of the Concan, it was imagined 

 that the influence of the father might have been successfully exerted 

 to bring the son to a due sense of his duty to the state. Doubtful pro- 

 Leaves his family bably of the result, or desirous (as the first wish of 



in the government of .,-,«-.!.. 



the Eastern districts, a Hindoo) to provide for his family, it is stated that 

 previous to his departure for the capital, he made an arrangement of the 

 Southern provinces, and divided them among the children he had by ano- 

 ther consort ; his favorite residence had been confined to Bangalore and 

 Colar, the former (Bangalore) he bestowed on Eckojee, the founder of the 

 And confers con- Tanjore family, and Colar, Hoscotta, &c. on four of his 

 on h'fdepenStsTt other children and his chief minister. The evidence 

 his departure. f the grantst of this chief and his successors re- 



maining in these districts, sufficiently prove the existence of this con- 

 tinuation of their government, in which it is remarkable that no notice is 

 taken of the superior government and of the sovereign, agreeable to 

 Hindoo form. 

 41. This subordinate government under these Marhatta families ex- 

 Which they go- isted for 48 years in these districts; and until 

 vemed for 48 years. Cassim Cawn was sent by Aurungzebe to prosecute 

 his successes to the Southward, who deprived the progeny of Shahjee 



* Memoirs of Sevajee of Tanjore, &c. &c. which united, fully illustrate that part of 

 the history of the times. 



f Copies of some of these grants were sent to Poona in 1807, but no information 

 could be obtained there on the subject, and the meaning of the previous formula was not 

 known.— See Bangalore Grants in collection of Sassanums ; they begin with three of 

 Shabjee's, 1642 to 1650, and end with one of Eckojee's, 1670, and one of his Dewan's 

 in 1681. 



