[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c11.10 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.10 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.10 - **Language:** English ### [c11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.10) The capture of Belgaum and the conquest of its dependencies brought the whole of the Southern Maratha Country under the Musalmans, and for the time completely crushed the efforts of Hindu independence. The acquisitions were added to the estates of Khwaja Mahmud Gawan, who had taken a prominent part in the siege. Subsequently they were transferred by the minister to Fakhr-ul-Mulk.¹ In the year of the capture of Belgaum (A.D. 1472) and in the following year, a drought led to a terrible famine. No rain fell for two years; and, to use Farishtah's words: "The towns became almost depopulated; many of the inhabitants died of famine; and numbers emigrated for food to Malwa, Jajnagar in Katak, and Gujarat. In Telingana, Marhut that is Maharashtra, and throughout the Bahamani dominions, no grain was sown for two years; and in the third, when the Almighty showered his mercy upon the earth, scarcely any farmer remained in the country to cultivate the land."² - [Previous: c11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.9) - [Next: c11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.11) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.10) · Pramāṇa