1844.] Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 ^o 1647. 455 

 nagement of (he My- but to consolidate and improve their resources by a 



sore and Bednore , 



chiefs. system of management rather to be looked for in 



happier times. This was more particularly the case in Mysore and 

 Bednore, where the civil arrangements of Chick Deo Vadeyar in the 

 former, and the sisloo or established assessment of Sevapa Naik in the 

 latter, are still considered as models, well adapted to the nature of the 

 country, the habits of the natives, and with great probability presum- 

 ed to be founded on the more general system that once prevailed 

 throughout the country. It is a fact well ascertained, that these stan- 

 dards of internal economy were established at a period when the 

 neighbouring more powerful states were involved in all the horrors and 

 distress of foreign invasion, or of internal weakness.* 



74. Of their origin and gradual steps by which these chiefs had 

 Their origin and established themselves in the Upper Carnatic, ano- 



progress referred to 



another occasion. ther occasion may offer of being more diffuse ;t but 

 as much of the then condition of the Carnatic Ballaghaut, however, 

 may be understood from the state in which it already was, about the 

 period of the death of Chick Deo of Mysore, we shall only interrupt 

 the course of the narration here, briefly to notice the establishment 

 and growth of the European establishments on the coast, which at this 

 time begin to emerge into notice, amidst the transactions in the lower 

 country, and its reduction first by Golconda and Beejapoor, and after- 

 wards by the Mogul power. 



75. While the war raged in the centre of the Deckan, particularly 

 Brief notice of the in the country North of Beejapoor and Golconda, 



Eu e ropean tdt fac°tories tne provinces South of these capitals seem to have 

 on the coast. enjoyed some respite from alarm, save alone what 



arose from the warfare of petty chiefs, or the rumors of the long 

 threatened but protracted invasion of the Moguls. From North to 

 South along the coast, a linej of European factories had been settled 



* Sevapa Naik died in A. D. 1661 after a reign of 19 years. — See Bednore Memoir 



Chick Deo died in A. D. 1704, after a reign of 32 years, from 1672, the very period in which the 

 war with Sevajee, Beejapoor and Golconda was carried on with unceasing fury. Chick Deo assumed 

 the regal state in 1700. 



t A concise view of the origin and progressive growth of the territory and power of the families 

 of Mysore, Bednore Ickery, Raidroog and Chittledroog in the Upper Carnatic, and of those of 

 Madura, Ginjee, and Tanjore (not the Marhatta family,) in the lower country, erroneously called 

 Carnatic, is in hand ; but will require sometime to consult authorities. 



J An ample Account of the establishment of the Dutch factories of Tutocorin, Negapatam, 



