45() Political Events in the Carnatic. from 1564 to 1687- [No. 150. 



since the close of the ancient Hindoo regime, and under the sanction 

 Hindoo rajahs and of the new lesser states, who from the earliest period 

 S^encourafelhdr seemed inclined to encourage these settlements from 

 commerce. motives of benign encouragement to their subjects' 



trade and commerce. The Golconda kings also, from undoubted evi- 

 dence,* appear to have embraced the same maxims. The difficulties 

 sometimes occurred from the exactions of their governors ; and factories 

 were established even in the interior and more remote parts of the 

 country of Golconda, which have since that period of devastation and 

 ruin, been consigned to oblivion. j 



76. The invasion of the Gingee country, and of that along the coast 



Their trade in con- by the Beejapoor generals, and soon afterwards by 



merce'and industryof Sevajee, had indeed interrupted their tranquillity, 



the country disturbed an( j cons iderable devastation appears to have taken 



about Forto Novo, by rr 



Sevajee's irruption. p i ace i n the tract extending to the coast from the 



But it does not ap- 

 pear that the interior Palar to the Coleroon, where the commerce and in- 

 of Taniore was much , _ . , . . , ^ , A ,., 



disturbed by Ecko- dustry of the country received a shock that it did 

 Je S^ho Va 7n n *Tanjore not recover for many years; J but this devastation 

 followed the mode seems no t to have extended into the province of 



established in Ban- l 



galore by his father. Tanjore, South of the Coleroon, wherein Eckojee 

 appears to have exercised a regulated system of administration, much 

 resembling the model established by his father in the districts of Ban- 

 galore and Colar, and which was attended in that country with an in- 



Tegapatam, Sadras, Pullicat, Masulipatara, Dacharam, Bimlipatam and their commercial lodges at 

 Golconda and Nagulvansa, are given in Havart's work, published at Utrecht about 1692; also in 

 Baldeus and Valentyn. They were established before the first voyage of the English to this coast, 

 and the Dutch appear to have opposed their forming a commercial establishment at Pullicat so 

 early as See Flori's Voyage in Astley's Collection, Vol. — p. — 



* See the series of 14 Grants or Firmans by the Golconda government to the Dutch (in Havart) 

 for Negapatam, Masulipatam, &c. 



t Travelling by accident by Nagulvansa, not far from Cummamett in the Nizam's dominions in 

 1797, a part of the country overun with jungle, and shewing evident vestiges of better times, I ac- 

 cidentally met with a Dutch tombstone, which led to the discovery of the riches of their factory. In 

 Havart's work this inscription is preserved, and we there meet an account of that establishment and 

 of its capture during the invasion in 1687. It is neediess to observe that it has lain in ruins ever 

 since, and the whole of that country, which then furnished cloth of a particular kind for a Dutch 

 investment, has never recovered the calamity. 



% Baldeus under the year 1660 says : " The king of Beejapoor not long before made an inroad 

 into the country of Tanjore : and the marks of the famine are still visible, p. 588; we may therefore 

 suppose the few years before to coincide with the period of 1657, but this devastation extended only 

 to that part of the country of Tanjore which extends along the coast about Negapatam and Porto 

 Novo, where the Dutch investment and factories were ruined.— See Havart. 



