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



med Alii ; pretensions that originated in the respective range of the 

 military command of two deputies of the Mogul viceroy of Deckan, 

 or rather (as in the case of Hyder particularly,) of persons who had 

 in the disturbed state of the times, possessed themselves of their title 

 and authority. Even the Carnatic itself in this short space lost its 

 name, when by an unaccountable misnomer, that name which originally 

 belonged to a central province of the upper country, and afterwards 

 to the empire founded upon it, was in European instruments of the 

 highest political import, exclusively applied to that tract of the lower 

 country, which stretches along the coast from the Gondegama to the 

 Coleroon, and which though formerly governed as a dependency of 

 the Carnatic, has always among the natives been known by the name 

 of Tonda-Mundalum, or Nara-Mundalum.* 



16. To return from what may scarcely be deemed a digression from 

 the state of the country on Chick Deo's demise, (since it relates so 

 intimately to the future destination of his acquired territory,) it is 

 proper here to notice the distribution that took place of the Southern 

 provinces under the Mogul arrangement. In this distracted state of 

 things, when the new form was introduced about 1687, 16 years previ- 

 ous to the date we are treating of, it would appear that the Mogul 

 chiefs were guided in some degree by the forms they found already 

 established under Beejapoor and Golconda, which do not appear mate- 

 rially to have differed in principle! from their own, if we compare 

 them with the system of Akbar, (or rather that of his Hindoo financial 

 minister Toder Mull.) 



Rana-doolah, (or as is said Shahjee,) had originally organized the 

 conquered country south of Cavery into 7 purgunnahs or mahals, in- 

 cluding the capital. 



1. Serah, 3. Bookapatam, 5. Colar and 6. Hoscotta, 



2. Boodiall, 4. Pennaconda, Bangalore, 7. Pedda Ballapoor. 

 But Bangalore with its district, (as has been already mentioned,) was 



transferred by treaty to Chick-Deo, in the year 1687, within three days 

 of his getting possession. 



* Nara Mundalum, u e. the lower region, a name which with further illustration of 

 the Ancient History of this country, has but very recently come to our knowledge, 

 (February 19, 1810,) and furnishes a key to the real translation of the classical 

 nomenclature of the Alexandrian geographers, Paralia, Soretanum, &c. 



f Sec Memoir of Scrah. 



