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



soon after Golconda also fell.* Thus both these states falling at the 

 same time, the Mogul power was at once extended over the whole of 

 the late divided Mahomedan governments of Deckan, and precau- 

 tions were speedily adopted for reducing the Hindoo chiefs, considered 

 as their dependents to the Southward. 



72. One of the first measures after this event was to send Cassim 



Reduction of their Cawn, as phouzdar, over the province of the Carnatic, 



desfo e ilowed. ependen * Iate] y dependent on the two governments of Be- 

 The Carnatic form- j ap00r an d Golconda. That of the former is al- 



ed into two provinces. J r 



The Hindoo chiefs ready stated to have consisted of the settled districts 



considered as the Ze- 

 mindars dependent on of Serah and Bangalore, with the forced tributaries, 



as the poligars of Harponelly, Raidroog, Coonderpee, 

 Anagoondy, Bednore, Chittledroog and Mysore ; but at this time 

 they do not appear to have carried their arms across the Cavery. That 

 province was now denominated the Carnatic Beejapoor Ballaghuut, 

 while the more Easterly provinces, lately dependent on Golconda, com- 

 posing the late Circars of Cuddapa, Cummun, Ghooty and Gandicotta, 

 &c. were denominated Hydrabad Carnatic Ballaghaut ; and the pro- 

 vinces below the Ghauts along the sea, extending as far South as the 

 Palar, were denominated Hydrabad Carnatic Pay en Ghaut, and the 

 whole placed under the supreme command of a phouzdar, or officer 

 possessing military and civil power, entitled a Nabob, the source and 

 origin of the future Nabobs of the Carnatic ; a circumstance perhaps 

 not sufficiently attended to, of late years, from the separation of the 

 two Mogul provinces, and rise of a new power in Mysore, the up- 

 per or original province of the Carnatic. 



73. Of the changes that had in this interval of thirteen years taken 

 a. D. J 670. place in the internal state of that country, it may suffice 



„ 1682. curS orily to notice, that the new native powers of Mysore, 

 Brief notice of the Bednore, Chittledroog and Raidroog had availed 



state of the Carnatic ° 



during the late war. themselves of the difficulties of their earlier adver- 



And of the power . , _ . _ , , . _ . 



of the Mysore, Bed- sanes, the Patan states or Golconda and Beejapoor, 



XSifSr 1 " »ho were entirely occupied in repelling the Moguls, 

 Improvement and n()t on ] v t0 } ncr ease their acquisitions of territory, 



wise internal ma- J * 



* After the fall of Beejapoor, he immediately marched against Golconda, which was closely 

 besieged from 2d February to 2d October 1687, when it was entered by treachery. Havart, Vol. 

 2d, p. — also Madras Records under that year. 



