The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c10.241

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In A.D. 1633 Khandesh was made into a subha, and included part of Berar and the present district of Khandesh as far south and west as Galna. The districts of Sultanpur and Nandurbar had formerly been joined to the subha of Malwa. The country south of Khandesh as far as the Bhima was made into a separate subha, of which Daulatabad was the head. Both governments were in 1636 united under Aurangzib. He reduced the hilly country of Baglan, which was however soon relinquished. In the years of quiet which now succeeded Shah Jahan introduced into his Dakhan possessions a new revenue system known as that of Todar Mal. This assessment called tankha was the standard assessment till the British revenue system was introduced. In 1616 Sir Thomas Roe passed through Khandesh and was received at Burhanpur by prince Parvis. The city had not then recovered from the ravages of the late wars, and contained few fine buildings. Forty years later it was visited by the French traveller Bernier, and about A.D. 1665 by Tavernier, who travelled up from Surat. At that time there was a considerable trade in brocades and muslins. Tavernier mentions Nandurbar as famous for its musk melons and grapes and for its careful and hardworking husbandmen. In A.D. 1670 the English factory was moved from Ahmadabad to Nandurbar.