1835.] ElograpMcal sketch of Col. Mackenzie. 281 



the exigencies of the public service), to the Oriental is- 

 lands and coasts of Asia, 



7. Materials, memoirs, and historical pieces translat- 

 ed, illustrative of the history of the several Muhamme- 

 dan dynasties that were successively established in the 

 Dekkan or the south of India, from the thirteenth to the 

 eighteenth century, under their respective heads ; illus- 

 trated by descriptions, plans, and drawings of the cities, 

 forts, buildings (civil or religious), remaining, by coins, 

 inscriptions, &c. These include 



I. The earlier Muhammedan governments in Dek- 

 kan^ of 



1. Biejapore. 4. AhmednaggaXo 



2. Golkonda. 5: Dov/latabad. 



3. Beder. 



II. The Mogul government in the Dekkan. 



8. Materials collected and translated, illustrative of 

 the geography and political arrangements and provincial 

 divisions of the Dekkan, in its six si^bas or viceroyalties, 

 from the earliest times till the arrangement made by 

 AsAF Jah (the celebrated Nizam-ul-Mulk), in the be- 

 ginning of the eighteenth century. This is of more im- 

 portance, as by this arrangement most of the political, 

 dhdsions of territory among the present existing powers, 

 the Nizam, the Mahrattas, &c. are thereby regulated ; 

 and some knowledge of it is a necessary prelude to that 

 of the present state of the south of India. This object, 

 which has constantly been in view since Colonel Mac- 

 kenzie was sent with the Dekkan subsidiary force in 

 1792, by Lord Cornwallis, till he v/as removed from 

 it in 1806, has never been lost sight of in the intervals 

 of other professional and public engagements. The 

 Daftar of the Dekkan, the HaJdkat Hindustan, and t])e 

 history of Khafi Khan* (an author of credit, little 



* The history of Khafi Kuan iuchules the auuals of the celebrated Au- 

 rungzib's reign, hith:ito a desideratum iu ludiaii history, excepting the 

 first ten years. 



