[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) › c11.146 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.146 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.146 - **Language:** English ### [c11.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.146) In September 1824 Mr. Thackeray, the Principal Collector, received a letter at Dharwar purporting to be from the desai, and dated the 10th July, in which the adoption of a son was announced, the servant who brought the letter stating, at the same time, that his master was dying. The civil surgeon was immediately sent to Kittur and found that the desai had been dead several hours. No application for permission to adopt had previously been made, and when Mr. Thackeray had last seen the desai the latter had never expressed any wish to adopt. The signature of the letter, also, was not like the desai's handwriting. These suspicious circumstances led to an enquiry by which it was ascertained that the desai had actually died without making an adoption, and that his karbharis had invested a child with the insignia, and had put a pen in the dead man's hand with which they signed the letter announcing the adoption. It was further ascertained that no descendant of the desai, who held the state before its conquest by Tipu was alive, and that no near connection of the deceased desai, in the female line, was to be found. The boy alleged to have been adopted was, if connected with the family at all, descended from a collateral branch so remote that its descent from the common ancestor could not be traced. - [Previous: c11.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.145) - [Next: c11.147](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.147) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c11.146) · Pramāṇa