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of transactions. I cannot say therefore what was the result of this letter, 
but as the English on their part had their hands full at this time with 
their quarrel with the Nawab, their inaction is perhaps sufficiently ac¬ 
counted for. 
There is, however, great dearth of information about the internal 
affairs of Balasore at this time. On 4th December comes another letter 
from Bhawani Pandit stating that two years before the zamindars of 
Moharbhanj and Nilgiri had plundered the inhabitants of some parts of 
Balasore and entered into a confederacy with Bhaskar Pandit, faujdar of 
that place, whom they had carried off into Nilgiri and kept there, so that 
no revenue had been received from him for two years. This is hardly to 
be reconciled with the fact that two years earlier Sheo Bhat and his 
cavalry had been ravaging Midnapore and Jellasore. The gleanings 
remaining after Sheo Bhat, for the Nilgiri zamindar to pick up, must have 
been scant enough. One wonders after so many years of plundering what 
there could have been left for any one to take. Bhawani writes again on 
the 27th to say, he had come to the neighbourhood of Jellasore with his 
troops, but as the Maharaja (Janoji) had always been desirous to do 
“ what is most beneficial for the poor inhabitants of the country” (f !) he 
bad ordered his officers not to enter either Jellasore or Midnapore, so as to 
avoid any breach with the English. All this while Sheo Bhat was still in 
Orissa exciting the zamindars and paiks to resist the new Governor Bhawani 
Pandit. The Raja of Kanika whose territories lay partly in Balasore and 
partly in Cuttack was notorious for the disturbances he kept up. He and 
his paiks were conspicuous then, and as we shall see for forty years after, 
for their oppression and general unruliness. 
The Court of Directors in 1764 express their great pleasure at 
learning that the proposed expedition against the Marathas in Balasore 
and Cuttack had been given up as “ conquests are not our aim.” They 
little foresaw what an amount of conquests would soon be forced on them 
by circumstances! 
The Marathas were now, however, on good terms with the Eng¬ 
lish, and in February 1764 there was a good deal of correspondence. 
Three residents were appointed, Mr. Marriott at Balasore, Mr. Hope at 
Cuttack, and Mr. Moore at Malood; their chief business was to keep open 
the communication between Calcutta and Madras, and on one occasion 
mention is made of sending letters by this route to Bombay, a project 
frequently revived in subsequent times. A letter was also written to 
“ Bauskir Pandit, Fauzdar of Ballasore” (probably the Bhaskar Pandit 
mentioned above) requesting him to assist Mr. Marriott who was to live 
at the Company’s Factory ; and another curious letter to “ Chumina Sen, 
Chief at Cuttack” requests him to give strict orders to the zamindars to 
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