1844.] Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 to 1647. 441 



Podellee Lingapa,* then said to be established by a Brahmin of that 

 name, is still known in our own system of management. Thus the 

 Carnatic on either side came in its revenues to be administered by 

 two different classes of foreign Brahmins, Marhatta and TelHnga, acting 

 under the authority of a double Mahomedan government, whose forms 

 and documents then introduced are still erroneously recurred to, as 

 standards of the ancient system of financial administration! in the 

 Carnatic. 



47. The Beejapoor generals on the either side, from their capitals of 

 Serah, &c, appear to have reduced the country North of Ghooty, with 

 the Polligars dependent on it; and then extended their dominions 

 A. D 1652. into the vale of Canoul and the Circar of Nundial; and 

 finally concluded the treaty of Penaconda in some haste, probably 

 to prevent its falling into the hands of their Golconda allies and 

 rivals ; for, notwithstanding their apparent amity, which necessity only 

 caused, the utmost jealousy and rivalry at times appeared, heightened 

 by the animosities produced by opposite religious opinions of different 

 sects. t 



4tt. The ablest of the Golconda generals rebelling in the mean time, 

 the prince Aurungzebe readily availed himself of this favorable cir- 

 cumstance, and gave extraordinary encouragement to Meer Jumla; 

 not so much influenced by his acknowledged talents perhaps as by the 

 deep designs of that artful statesman on the imperial throne, and the 

 future subjugation of the whole peninsula. 



49. Such was the state of the times when a Native author§ con- 



* This Brahmin in 1677 is stated in the Records to have been "then Governor for 

 Golconda of all the country extending from Armigam, South to the Beejapoor posses- 

 sions," comprehending in fact the ancient province of Tanda-mundalum, or what in 

 latter times became the jagheer of the Company. 



f It will be recollected, that this generally refers to the provinces South of the 

 Toombuddra, or the Carnatic, the proper subject of this paper; while in Hindostan, the 

 institutions of the Patan and Mogul emperors had been so long established as 7 or 8 

 centuries; and in Bengal for 200 years.— See Grant's Enquiry. 



X The sects of Soonee and Sheya divide the Mahomedans of India. The Golconda 

 chiefs were generally of the latter, holding Ali in great reverence. 



§ This little tract containing the most authentic account of the Southern kin^s from 

 the 13th century, was apparently written about the year 1646, the very year in which 

 the Mahomedans expelled the last of the Rayels from Chundergeery, and was probably 

 meant to excite the hopes of a deliverer of the Hindoos, and to revive their drooping 

 spirits. — Gutpurtee MS. 



