1844.] Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 to 1687. 579 



their contests, with consequences that have agitated these countries 

 down to a very late period, and it is also imagined, that a more perfect 

 knowledge of the changes since introduced into the internal policy 

 and management of the country, may be assisted by a distinct view of 

 its state at that time, and of the successive administrations and rulers 

 that rapidly followed each other within this period in the government 

 of the Carnatic. It is proposed here to sketch out the situation and ex- 

 tent of the several powers that were in existence at this epoch, and in 

 connection with the new formed state of Mysore ; this may be also an 

 useful preliminary to some account of the various modifications aris- 

 ing from the circumstances of the times, and the sudden appearance 

 of a new power on the theatre of action. 



2. At the very moment that the recent Mogul conquest of Beeja- 



_ „ , „ poor and Golconda seemed to have swallowed up 



Progress of the fur- 

 ther conquests in the even the name with resources of these states, and 



Deckan, on the fall of , , _ . _ 



Beejapoor and Gol- threatened to reduce the whole ot the remnsula 



to theMahomedan yoke, the Marhatta nation which 

 had been suddenly risen, and under a form hitherto unknown in politics, 

 comprehending a system neither completely dependent on the will of 

 one person, nor yet regulated by any mode hitherto observed of con- 

 sulting the interests of a nation in the voice of their most distinguished 



, , , , . counsellors, wresting a share of the spoils from the 

 Retarded by the sud- ° r 



den growth of the Mar- conqueror, opposed an unexpected barrier to the 

 hatta power. , 



Hindoos of the South ; but as the effects of their 



depredations on the provinces of the Carnatic, by repeated invasions 

 that they carried to the utmost extent about this time, had not yet 

 been made the pretence of invasion under the memorable claim of 

 choute, they are here barely introduced so far, to illustrate the policy 

 of Chick Deo and his successors, and the place which that new state 

 now began to assume in the general scale of Balla- Ghaut, which soon 

 after this time fell, to be considered as a dependent province of the go- 

 vernment of the Deccan. 



3. One of the first steps of Aurungzebe, after the fall of Beejapoor, 

 A. D. 1689. was t0 detach Cassim Cawn with an army to 



First Mogul army sent reduce the upper Carnatic. He was attended by 



into the Carnatic with ri J 



CossimCawna's fouzdar several subordinate officers, civil and military, 



ol Carnatic Beejapoor. 



among whom Ali Mcrdan is mentioned as fouz- 



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