590 Political Events in the Car natic, from 1564 to 1687. [No. 152. 



paramount claim of the Nabob of the Carnatic on that country; yet 

 these expeditions appear to have been rather desultory, and intended to 

 raise supplies, than to make a settlement of tribute, which we find a 

 few years afterwards exacted under a more systematic rule. 



22. Trichinopoly at this time was under a weak regency, managed 

 by a woman, and from the large sums rated in the register, we may 

 presume the tribute actually levied was very heavy. As from about this 

 period we hear no longer of the wars and depredations of the Madu- 

 rans and Mysoreans, we may suppose that they were considered under 

 the protection of the Moguls. Mysore had got possession indeed of 

 Salem, Parmutty, Namcul and Darampoory,* but it is only in the next 

 reign we find Dodda-Daba Raja seizing on Coimbatoor. Shortly after 

 the Dewan-Fouzdar, (for he united both offices in his own person,) 

 Saadut-Oolla, had enforced, it is said, a tribute from Mysore. In the 

 civil contentions that agitated the empire at this time, it is difficult to 

 procure further documents to explain these transactions. 



23. The sudden incursions of the Gatka Marhattaf chiefs had at one 

 time alarmed Mysore, and put Seringapatam in danger. It is probable 

 these lawless freebooters (for such they are by all parties described 

 to be) had made this expedition from Gingee, and is the same men- 

 tioned in the Madras Records ; but after the capture of that place, and 

 during the incessant predatory war that was carried on through the 

 Carnatic by the Marhattas, denominated in the story of the times " the 

 wars of Santa and Dana," there is room to think, that the proper coun- 

 try of Mysore enjoyed a degree of tranquillity and security little known 

 at this time by the other provinces. 



24. It was in this interval then that we may imagine Chick-Deo ap- 

 plied himself to settle his country, to consolidate its resources, and to 

 establish those improvements and regulations which still distinguish 

 his name among the ablest and most beneficent princes of these coun- 



* Sattimunglum and its district is doubtful; we may therefore infer that the Mysore 

 territory at this period extended no further to the South than to the present limits of 

 the Passes of Guzzelhutty, Caveripoorum, &c. The more Northern parts of Barramahl 

 are supposed to have been dependent on Colar, as Amboor, &c. A complete translation 

 of the Madura Memoir will throw further light on this part. 



f See Memoir of the Mysore family, and of the Calala family. 



