The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c12.706

c12.706

SIDIS : Abyssinians, said to have taken possession of Janjira (about 1489, 34; their districts invaded by Shiváji (1658); unite with Bijápur and the Sávants against Shiváji, 68; abandon Dāṇḍa-Rājāpur, and take refuge in Janjira, put the state under the protection of the Moghals (1670), 69; destroy the fortifications of Dāṇḍa-Rājāpur, take several of the forts in the neighbourhood, and treat people with cruelty (1672); blockade the Karaṇja river and lay waste villages along the Nāgoṭhna river (1673), 70; their fleet plunders the coast and carries the inhabitants away as slaves (1677-78), 71; their alliance with the English broken; take Underi (1680), 72; renew the struggle for the possession of Khānderi and burn Apta (1680), 76; make raids on the Marāṭha territory and defeat Sambhājī's fleet in Bombay harbour (1682), 77; obtain a sanad from Aurangzeb and take the districts of suvarndurg and Anjanvel and the forts of Rajpuri and Rāygad, 79; attack Bassein, threaten Sālsette, and ravage the country about (1692), 80; lose some places to the Marāṭhās (1713), 82; take Goṭalkot (1733), 83; enter into a formal alliance with the English, 83, 88; their alliance with the English dissolved (1784), 107.