The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.89

c11.89

the several provinces, and the tract of country of which this sketch has to deal was placed under Fateh Sing Bhonsle. Some years later (A.D. 1730) in the treaty between the rájás of Sátára and Kolhápur, the territory lying between the rivers Várna and Krishna on the north and the Tungbhadra on the south was assigned to Kolhápur. Miraj Tásgaon and Athni thus remained with Sháhu; but he and the Peshwás exercised sovereignty over a considerable portion of the tract assigned to Kolhápur by the treaty. The Nizám too divided the revenue with the Maráthás in such parts of the Southern Marátha Country as were not included in the svaráj or had not been wholly ceded in jáhgir, and long held Bijápur and the adjacent country. In his capacity of viceroy of the Dakhan he interfered to suppress disturbances in the Bijápur Karnátak,¹ and appointed a new subhedár to that district. He is said to have taken the fort of Belgaum into his own hands about this time and to have kept it for ten years, after which it passed into the hands of the Sávanur nawáb as his deputy.²