444 Political Events in the Camatic, from 3564 to 1687. [[No. 150. 



Dowlatabad, the rebellion of the Mahomedan chiefs of Deckan, an I 

 the dissatisfaction of the nobles ; with the revolution by which the 

 new Mahomedan state of Deckan was formed under the Sultans of 

 Culburga and Beder, are now well known to Europeans ; but the 

 cause of the cessation of their inroads, by which for 364* years, the 

 Southern Hindoos were left to themselves to form new states and 

 new governments, is not so clearly understood perhaps, nor that with 

 considerable success they repelled the forces and repeated efforts of 

 Weakened by in- these warlike enthusiastic Northern nations. One 



four 6 di o V v i erame a nts of the chief CaUSeS P roceeded from the ^W Maho- 

 t'ormed bv the Patans. me dan states early splitting into four or five dif- 

 ferent principalities, who were constantly engaged in hostilities with 

 each other, till religious zeal on their side, and imprudent arrogance 

 on that of Ram Raj, brought on the last war that terminated in the 

 subversion of the Hindoo monarchy ; otherwise there is sufficient 

 evidence to think, that some of them (the Adil-Shaha and Dowlatabad 

 chiefs) would have rather supported the Hindoo state as a check to 

 their rivals, had they not been goaded on by religious prejudices. 

 52. Exclusive of the revolt of Deckan chiefs about this period, the 

 The Northern tribes Northern hordes appear to have approached the 

 tte^ront^sTHin- limits of Hindostan, and we find them harassing 

 dostaa the empire, by turns defeated or bribed from 1295 



A. D. 1295. till 1326 ; when their leader, Seri, of a tribe named Za- 



, , J oUo. 



„ 1305. gatai, then entirely new to Hindoos, was induced by a 

 ,, 1326. . T . . . ... 



sum almost the price of the empire to retire, an act of 



improvidence, which joined to their growing confidence in their 



numbers, stimulated by exaggerated ideas of the wealth of India, or 



rather of the Deckan, (for in fact from Jellingana, Waruncull and the 



Carnatic, were supplied those immense! sums that could be only reck- 



* From 130U to 1664. 



f It is difficult at first to conceive whence this wealth could come, but when it is 

 recollected that considerable quantities of gold have been worked throughout the 

 Peninsula, added to what might be imported by an early commerce with the Eastward, 

 and reflecting that the constant accumulation of ages had never before been wasted by 

 foreign invasion or expedition, some credit may be given to the quantities said by the 

 Mahomedan writers to be carried off by Allah. It is to be observed that silver was 

 then little known in the Peninsula, and as a coin, is never mentioned in any ancient 

 Records or Grants. 



