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affected fugitive chiefs of the Golconda army, and finally effected a 

 truce with Abdul Kerrim Khan, by which a resident was received at 

 Beejapoor ; and that general appears to have undertaken soon after to 

 bring Hydrabad into the imperial possession.* In this interval Cul- 

 burga and Nuldroog were both surprized, and Abdul Kerrim engaged 

 in an intrigue to displace Khan Jehan, the imperial general. 



(56. That officer being in consequence recalled to court, Dillere 

 The general changed. Khan was appointed to conduct the war, and the 

 armies marched against Hydrabad ; but were forced to fall back by 

 the firmness of the Deckan nobles of Beejapoor, who on one occasion 

 are stated to have had 70,000 men in the field. On their return to Bee- 



But Dillere Khan japoor on the death of Abdul Kerrim, great confu- 

 unsuccessful returns. siong ensue( j 3 an( j i \ le troops mutinying, Dillere Khan 



was obliged to return to the province, after an expensive and disgrace. 



fill campaign, in a manner leaving Beejapoor in possession of one of 



their Deckanee chiefs, Siddee Masood. 



67- But the emperor firm in his plans, and inexorable in his resent- 

 Great exertions to m ent, though at so great a distance, persevered in his 



reduce Beejapoor and ° ° * 



most of the Affghan first design of reducing the country ; and orders were 



chiefs brought over . . 



and employed. sent to entertain all the Beejapoor and Hydrabad 



Affghan chiefs, most of whom had been now brought over by propor- 

 tionate offers of rank and jagheers ; 20,000 horsemen on one occasion 

 were enrolled at once on the pay lists ; and every exertion was made for 

 the purpose of carrying on with effect, the most formidable operations 

 against the Mahomedan states of Deckan, and the rising Hindoo chiefs. 

 68. In this interval, Sevajee had not been idle. When not em- 

 Sevajee after in- ployed in increasing and forming his army and 



creasing his army, ° ° * 



consolidated his re- fleet,t he took every favorable occasion of seizing 



sources and formed a . . 



fleet. some fort, or reducing some province from one or 



other of the contending parties. He at one time had made a descent 



* The ancestors of the Afghan or Patan chiefs of Sanoor, Canoul and Cuddapa were among the 

 number. — See Memoirs of these families. 



t In the fleet or army, it is stated in the Marhatta Memoir, that he embarked 40,000 of his 

 mavella, and after plundering Basaroor, Sedaseevadroog, and probably all the sea ports (which 

 occasioned an unusual terror on that coast,) and even not sparing the sacred temple of Gocurnum, 

 he obliged the celebrated Sevapa Naik by treaty, to pay him annually 3 lacs of boons, p. 37. His 

 intention of extending his conquests to Casee (Benares,) is stated in his remarkable conference 

 with Mahomed Cootub Shah at Golconda, a scheme of universal conquest, which appears to have 

 been nearly realized by the Marhattas afterwards. 



