The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c11.92

c11.92

The great power and extensive territory that the Sávanur nawáb acquired during the various changes noted above is shown by the cessions which Nawáb Majid Khán had to make by treaty to the Peshwa some years after. The chauth and sar-deshmukhi of the country between the Krishna and Tungbhadra had been farmed out to a well-known banker, Bápu Náik Báramatikar, and, as the latter's authority was resisted, an expedition was sent into the Southern Marátha Country in A.D. 1746 under Sadáshiv Chimnáji Bháu the Peshwa's cousin. It is probable that the obstruction had in a great measure been occasioned by the nawáb, who not long before had thrown off his dependence on the Mughals. Majid Khán, however, was not strong enough to resist the Marátha force and had to agree to a treaty by which he yielded up the whole of the country comprised in the tálukás of Bágalkot, Bádámi, Pádshápur, Kittur, Dhárwár, Navalgund, Parasgad, Dambal, part of Ránebennur and Kod, Gokák, Yádvád, Torgal, Haliyál, and others, thirty-six districts in all. He was allowed to retain Mishrikot, Hubli, Bankápur, Hángal, and other districts, to the number of twenty-two, together with the forts of Bankápur, Torgal, and Azamnagar or Belgaum.³ The ceded districts seem not to have passed at once into the hands of the Maráthás, as Gokák was taken by the Peshwa on his return from his expedition into the southern Karnátak in A.D. 1754; and later on Bágalkot is mentioned as having been similarly taken.