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ter or Register, and which are presumed to have been continued from 

 the Beejapoor government,) whose pretensions to be included in this 

 list are more equivocal, and were undoubtedly not always acknowledg- 

 ed even at the forming of that record. Though Cassim Cawn subju- 

 gated the open country, neither he nor his successors could reduce 

 the rajahs of Seringapatam, Chitteldroog, Ickery or Bednore and 

 others, who maintained their independence, until Saadut-Olla Khan, 

 (who Bahadoor Shah appointed Soobah of the two Carnatics in 17 10,) 

 by collecting all his force from Payen-Ghaut, Cuddapa and Serah, 

 obliged them to pay tribute in that year. Of these, at the period we 

 speak of (1704), Mysore or Seringapatam we see was nearly indepen- 

 dent, Bednore and Soonda were equally so, and were too near the Mar- 

 hattas to be reduced to a regular tribute, and we find they resisted 

 both, generally with success. Chitteldroog at times paid reluctant 

 contributions to one or other; and the chiefs of Mallialum and Tra- 

 vancore are not even enumerated in the Dufter of the Deckan. Their 

 claims on the former under the word Calicut, are indeed some years 

 afterwards mentioned as a matter of doubtful acquisition; and the 

 claims on Travancore could only arise from the paramount preten- 

 sions of Madura, which under the head of Trichinopoly, together with 

 Tanjore, form two Circars in that record. 



21. It has been already observed, that Tanjore and Trichinopoly 

 were not included in the province of Beejapore in the register; though 

 it is highly probable, that on the first expedition of Zoolfucar Khan, 

 they might have been considered as such, since Eckojee's possession of 

 the former was effected under the authority from Beejapoor only [a few] 

 years before; but it is not known that any tribute was exacted from 

 them previous to that invasion. Zoolfucar, however, undoubtedly laid 

 under heavy contributions both countries, and though the Marhattas of 

 Tanjore are accused of keeping aloof during the siege of Gingee, 

 yet it is highly probable, (what is indeed alleged,) that influenced by 

 ties of consanguinity, some degree of assistance clandestinely furnished 

 to their countrymen at Gingee, had drawn the vengeance of the con- 

 querors on them; and in the contentions about Tanjore of late years, 

 we find a perwanna* of Zoolfucar Khan quoted as authority for the 



* History of the Management of the East India Company quoted from memory, but 

 the work cannot be referred to here. 



