The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.85

c11.85

When Sháhu, the grandson of the great Shiváji, was released by the Mughals, he found the Southern Marátha Country partly overrun by the adherents of his cousin the rája of Kolhápur and partly in the hands of the Sávanur nawáb. He promised to clear his country of plunderers and practically to bring it again under the Mughal emperor if the latter would bestow on him the *chauth* and *sar-deshmukhi* of the six *subhás* of the Dakhin. His application was at first refused, but in A.D. 1719 he obtained from Delhi the grants above noted, and in addition the *svaráj* or personal sovereignty of a number of districts extending from Poona to a considerable distance south of the Tungbhadra river and comprising the greater part of the dominions of the extinct Bijápur kingdom.¹ Various officers were appointed to A.D. 1300-1818. The Nizám, A.D. 1730.