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and Stutistical, of the Ceded Districts. 



Ill 



Sultan's possessions on the Malabar coast and the lower ghats, On the 

 fall of Tippoo in 1799, the Nizam acquired the districts about Gooty 

 and Gurrumcondab, and the tract of country around Colar, Nundidroog, 

 Chittledroog, and Sera, the British retaining the forts. To the Mali- 

 rattas were to be allotted, among other districts, upper Soonda, Anna- 

 gundi, Harponhully, and part of Chittledroog and Bednore, on certain 

 stipulations. On the 12th October 1800, the British government con- 

 cluded a new treaty with their late ally the Nizam, by which he ceded 

 to the Company all the territory of the Balaghat south of the Kistnah 

 and Tumbuddra rivers, and in short the whole of the possessions he had 

 acquired by the treaty of Seringapatam, dated 18th March 1792, andby 

 that, of Mysore on 22d June 1 799. The taluk of Adoni, which had been 

 held in jaghire from the Nizam by the son of Muhabet Jung, was given 

 up to the English in lieu of the fortresses of Copal-droog and Gujander- 

 ghur on the northern side of the Tumbuddra. Part of Gudipet and two- 

 thirds of Punganoor were subsequently exchanged for some of the terri- 

 tories that had been set apart as the conditional share in the spoil of the 

 Peshwa, in case he acquiesced in the British arbitration of the dif- 

 ferences existing between himself and the Nizam, and in the exemption 

 of the latter from the payment of that odious tribute, the chout. These 

 conditions were not acceded to by the Peshwa, and the reserved territo- 

 ries were divided by the Nizam and the British in the proportion of 

 two-thirds to the former. In return for the districts thus ceded, the Bri- 

 tish government, among other things, agreed to defend the Nizam from 

 hostile aggression, both external and internal ; a regiment of native ca- 

 valry and two of native infantry were added to the subsidiary force, 

 which increased it to 1,000 horse 8,000 foot, and a detachment of artil- 

 lery. The cession of territory was made ostensibly to guarantee to us 

 by its revenue, valued in the schedule at 17,58,000 pagodas, the regular 

 payment of the expense of the troops placed at the Nizam's disposal > 

 or, to use a native expression, as a tunkali, in lieu of upwards of two 

 lacs of rupees (or Arcot rupees 24,17,100 annually) paid in monthly by 

 him for the support of six infantry battalions, a proportion of artillery 

 and a cavalry regiment, the subsidiary force of 179^. Banaganpully 

 was continued in Jaghire to Assad Ali, Sondur to the Peshwa, and Kur- 

 nool, after paying its annual pesbkush for two years to the Nizam, was 

 finally to be transferred to the Company. 



The collection of the revenue and civil administration of the Ceded 

 Districts was first entrusted to the able management of that sound and 

 practical statesman, Sir Thomas, then Major, Munro, who found the 

 country in a state of anarchy and misery, arising from the mal-adminis- 

 tration and negligence of the Nizam* s officers. Proceeding on the so- 



