[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c19.233 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.233 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.233 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.233) Shivājī’s object was never attained, for his line produced no second Shivājī, but his nation overflowed the Deccan and overran the whole of the empire. His dominions at his death were extensive. They comprised the Konkan, a tract between the sea and the crest of the Western Ghāts, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first parallel of north latitude, excluding the Portuguese, African and English settlements of Goa, Janjira, Chaul, Bombay, Salsette, Bassein and Damān, and southward of the Konkan the two isolated settlements of Kārwār and Ankola were included. Above the Ghāts, between Chākan and Kolhāpur, his territories extended eastward into the tableland of the Deccan to the confluence of the Bhīmā and the Nīrā and nearly to the confluence of the Krishnā and the Vārnā. On either side of the Tungabhadrā they included the districts of Koppal and Bellary, and, farther south, Sīra, Dod-Ballāpur, Kolār, Bangalore and Hoskote: the north-eastern districts of the modern Mysore state. Eastward of this tract the fortresses of Vellore, Ārnī and Gingee with the districts surrounding them, and southward of these again the whole of the present district of Tanjore, formed part of his domains. “The territories and treasures, however, which Shivājī acquired, were not so formidable to the Muhammadans as the example he had set, the system and habits he introduced, and the spirit he had infused into a large proportion of the Marāthā people.”¹ - [Previous: v4.c19.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.232) - [Next: v4.c19.234](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.234) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.233) · Pramāṇa