584 Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 to 1687. [No. 152. 



Coleroon, (rated as the Circars of Tanjore and Trichinopoly,) and 

 Gingee* and its district, where it had extended its conquests below 

 the Ghauts to the Eastern coast ; its Western provinces are enumerated 

 under their, respective Circars. In forming this new province of 

 Carnatic, it would appear that the arrangements of the preceding 

 government of Beejapoor had been followed ; and though Adone, and 

 Ghazipoor or Nundial, lying South of the Toombuddra, from its natural 

 situation, might be considered as properly belonging to the Carnatic, 

 yet they are includedf as distinct Circars (the 4th and 9th) of Soobah 

 Beejapoor, either owing to their being earlier reduced previous to 1648, 

 or to their being held at this time by some powerful families, J to whom 

 they were still left as the price of abandoning the declining fortunes 

 of the late dynasty. This eventually occasioned their separation from 

 the rest, when the Balla-Ghaut-Carnatic, in the course of events, came 

 under the domination of the possessor of the Mysore resources, *?3§ 

 years afterwards ; nor were they ever after connected under the same 

 administration, until the cession by the Nizam in October 1800 to the 

 East India Company, brought all the country lying South of the Toom- 

 buddra and Kistna once more under one government, an arrangement 

 which undoubtedly promises more firmly to secure the tranquillity of 

 the whole under one systematic rule, separated by these limits which 

 nature prescribes as the best mark of division between distinct powers. 

 11. The important frontier province of Sanoor Bankapoor, also was 

 not included in this arrangement, although it was part of the ancient 

 Carnatic kingdom beyond the Toombuddra. It had been at an early 

 period, on the fall of Ram-Raz, granted to one of the Patan chiefs of 

 Beejapoor, who by cultivating the good graces, and embracing the 

 party of the conqueror at an early period of this resolution, secured 

 its possession in that family as a jagheer or military fief, dependent on 

 the new Mogul conquests. In the Dufter it is entered as a Circar|| of 

 Beejapoor, including 16 Mahals, and rated at a fixed revenue. 



* On Gingee as then reduced, depended the tract along the Coast from the Palar 

 to the Coleroon, which Sevajee reduced in 1677, and was held for 1U years, till Beeja- 

 poor and Golconda fell, or rather until the capture of Gingee in 1700. 



f Adani Memoir. 



% Sanoor Memoir. 



§ A. D. 1761, when Serah was ceded to Hyder by Basalut Jung, but Adoni was re- 

 tained. 



jl Sanoor subdivisions in tbe Dufter. % 



