History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.14.2

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From these two and subsequent letters it is evident that the Company stationed agents at Balasore and Katak to forward their correspondence between Calcutta and Madras by the land route.³ The district of Medinipur had been ceded to the East India Company some time before November, 1760, as on the 12th of that month Nawāb Mīr Qāsim 'Alī was directed to order the *Faujdārs* of Medinipur and Chittagong to come to Calcutta immediately.⁴ On the same date another letter was written to the same Nawāb requesting him to send some troops to assist the Company in the expulsion of the Marathas from Medinipur.¹ A letter to Rāgmānjī Jāchak or Raghunāthjī Jāchak offers compliments on the 15th November 1760.² On the same date another letter was written to another agent named Gopalpuri requesting him to forward letters to Madras. Issues of the same date contain another letter to Rājā Nārāyaṇ Deo, perhaps the same as that against whom an application for help was sent to the Marathas by Vira Kiśora Deva I,³ regretting the Company’s inability to supply troops to him. The recently ceded districts were not yet completely conquered, as a letter was received from Nawāb Qāsim ’Alī Khān in which he says that he is determined to punish the Rājās of Burdwan and Medinipur.