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Rajamundry. The vast range of hilly country bounding the Subah to the 

 westward, from Bishenpur down to the neighbourhood of Karronde, Bas- 

 tar and Jayapur, was classed under a separate head in the Revenue ac- 

 counts of the empire, for reasons which will be subsequently stated, 

 and was allowed for many years after the Mohammedan conquest, to re- 

 main entirely under the management of its Native Chiefs, subject either 

 to the condition of Military service or to the payment of a light quit rent. 

 Very early after the settlement of the Emperor Akber, if not indeed at the 

 moment of its formation, the Sircar of Rajamendry and that portion of Ka- 

 linga Des which lies south of Tikali Raghunat'hpur were dismembered 

 from Orissa, by the successful encroachments of the Mohammedan Kings 

 of Golconda, called the Kutteb Shahis, but of this event, no distinct ac- 

 count is given in the history of the country. At the opening of Moham- 

 med Tacki Khan's administration, A. D. 1726, who governed as the 

 Naib or Deputy of the Nazim of the three provinces, the most authentic 

 Revenue records exhibit the Subah of Orissa as extending from a place 

 called Radha Dewal seven coss beyond the town of Midnapore to Ti- 

 kali* Raghunat'hpur, one of the estates in or near the Mahendra Mali 

 range of hills in Ganjam, a computed distance of 17(3 coss, and on the west 

 from the sea at False Point to the Bermul Pass, reckoned at coss eighty- 

 five. Before the close of his government its limits had become much re- 

 duced. The Officers of the Nizam of Hyderabad intriguing with the 

 powerful Zemindars (Poligars) of the Ganjam district, contrived to alienate 

 from the Province the whole of the country south of the Chilka Lake. On 

 the Bengal side, views of financial convenience induced the Nawab 

 Shuja Uddin Mohammed Khan to annex the mehals included in the 

 old Jellasore Sircar, as far as the Subanrekha, to the territory immedi- 

 ately dependent on the Moorshedabad Government, with, the exception 

 of Pergunnahs Pattaspur, &c. It was thus bounded, viz. by the Su- 



* Mr. Grant in his Political Survey of the Northern Sircars calls this place " Teckaly or Rogo- 

 naut'bpore on the sea coast 43 nines N. E. from Cicacole, the inheritance of Juggut Deo another de- 

 scendant of the Royal family of orissa but more immediately blanching from that of kimedy." 



