The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c12.95

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360, 363, 365 note 3, 366, 405, 409, 410, 412 and note 4, 414. BAGWEL: Commodore, sails against Sambháji Angria's fleet (1738), 88. BAHÁDUR BENDA: captured by Haripant the Marátha commander-in-chief; recovered by Mysore troops (1787), 661. BAHÁDURGAD: fort built by the Mughal governor Khán Jahán (1673), 626. BAHÁDUR GILÁNI: Bahamani general, 640. See Bahádur Khán Giláni. BAHÁDUR KHÁN: son and successor of Rája Ali of Khándesh, 624. BAHÁDUR KHÁN GILÁNI: gets possession of Dábhol and burns Máhim (Bombay) (1493), 32; killed in battle and his fleet handed over to the Gujarát admiral, 33. See Bahádur Giláni. BAHÁDUR KHÁN RANMAST: Mughal general, enters the Konkan (1684), 77. BAHÁDUR SHÁH: of Gujarát, drives Burhán Sháh from Berar, captures Ahmadnagar and compels Burhán to acknowledge his supremacy (1528-1530), 622. BAHÁL: records at, 523. BAHAMANI: dynasty founded about A.D. 1347 at Gulbarga, 587, 620; 637; extent of its territory (1347), 620, 637; during the Durgádevi famine (1396-1408) the hill forts fall into the hands of Marátha chiefs; Malek-ul-Tujár is sent to subdue the Gháts and the Konkan (1420), 588; another force is sent by Ala-ud-din into the Konkan (1436), 31, 588; Malek-ul-Tujár is again sent (1451); Máhmúd Gáwán, the great minister, makes another effort to subdue the hill country and takes Kelna (1472), and makes a new distribution of the dominions, 588; attacks on the Southern Marátha Country (1406-1472);

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the capture of Belgaum brings the whole country under them (1472), 638-639; famine (1472); unjust execution of the prime minister precipitates the fall of (1481), 639; partition of the Dekhan (1491); 589. BÁHATTARA-NYOG-ÁDHIPATI: official title, 485, 486, 489; 521, 524. BAHIRUGAD: chief place of the Shirkes, 31, 86. BAHLOL KHÁN: founder of the Sávanur family, enters the service of Ahmadnagar and thence passes to Bijápur (1626-1656), 665. BARBEIN: island, 14. BAHURIBAND: inscription at, 425. BAIL HONGAL: inscription at, 555. BÁIS: widows of Mahádaji Sindia, ill-treated by Shirzi Ráo Ghátge, take refuge in Amrutráo's camp and afterwards at Kolhápur; plunder Sindia's villages; driven with the help of Yashvant Ráo Holkar into Burhánpur and thence to Málwa (1798-1800), 607. BAITHANA: Paithana, 143, 538 note 8. BÁJAZET II.: emperor of Turkey, 44. BÁJI GHORPADE: Bijápur chief of Mudhol, his treachery and arrest of Sháhji, 592; sent against Shiváji; surprised and killed by Shiváji at Mudhol (1661), 593. BÁJIPUR: new town of Bassein, 99. BÁJIRÁO I.: second Peshwa, made Peshwa (1721), 599-600; defeats and kills Trimbakráo Dábháde (1731), 600; re-takes Rájgad, Tala, and Ghosála; Avchitgad and Birvádi ceded to him (1735), 83, 600; died (1740), 600. BÁJIRÁO II.: Konkan, during the reign of, 110-119; kept in confinement with his father and brother; on the death of the young Peshwa wins over Báloba Tátya, Sindia's chief adviser; to forestall Báloba is seated on the throne by Nána Phadnavis;

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his younger brother put on the throne by Sindia; Sindia declares for him; is reconciled to Nána Phadnavis and is formally installed Peshwa (1796); imprisons Nána Phadnavis in Ahmadnagar and allows Sindia's troops to levy money from the rich inhabitants of Poona (1797); releases Parashrám Bháu and sends him against the Rája of Sátára; war with Kolhápur (1799-1800), 606-607; executes Vithoji the brother of Yashwantráo Holkar and imprisons Mahádev Ráo Ráste (1801); is defeated by Yashwantráo Holkar (1802); flies to Bassein and signs treaty (1802) and returns to Poona escorted by the English (1802-03), 110-111, 608, 609; his mismanagement; endeavours to centralise his power and imprisons the Pratinidhi at Mhasvad (1806); his crafty policy, 609; Mahádev Ráo Ráste and Appa Desai Nipánikar fail to send their contingents and are deprived of their lands; forms a body of disciplined troops commanded by English officers (1813); raises Trimbakji Dengle and gives his consent to murder Gangádhar Shástri; surrenders Trimbakji to the English (1815); Trimbakji escapes; the inhabitants rise against him; surrenders Trimbakji and signs a new treaty with the English (1817), 610; war with the Peshwa; battle of Kirkee (1817); battle of Koregaon (1818); his surrender (1819), 611. BALABHADRA: elder brother of Krishna, 142. BALABHI: Valabhi, 284 note 4. BÁLACHANDRA: 288. BALADEVA: uncle of Básava and prime minister of Bijjala the Kalachuri king, 478; marries his daughter to Básava, 225, 226.

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BALADEVAYYA: officer of the Western Chálukya king Somesvara I., 443. BALAGÁMI: 369. See Balagámve. BALAGÁMVE: in Mysore, forms part of Kuntala, 431; chief place in the Banavási district, 437, 439, 489; important seat of Western Chálukya power, 449; inscriptions at, 228; 281 note 3; 282 note 5; 306 note 5; 339; 341 note 2; 369 and note 3; 428 note 4; 435 note 10; 436; 442 note 4; 443 note 3; 448 note 1; 450 note 2; 451 notes 1 and 2; 455 and note 6; 457 note 5; 458 note 2; 459 note 3; 460; 461; 465; 466; 473; 474; 475; 476; 487; 503 note 3; 505; 524; 529; 538 note 8; 568 note 3; 581 note 3. See Balipura and Balligáve. BÁLÁJI AUJI: Prabhu Chitnis of Shiváji, 594. BÁLÁJI: son and successor of Bájiráo I. (1740-1761), overcomes opposition and assumes the management of the Marátha empire (1749); confirms Rághoji Bhonsla in Berár, * Yeshvantráo Dábháde in Gujarát, Fatehsing Bhonsla in Kalkot, and divides Málwa among Holkar, Sindia, and Pavár; Yamáji Sivdeo's insurrection quelled; takes Damáji Gáikwár prisoner to Poona (1751), 600-601; war with the Nizám (1751), 601; greater part of Khándesh and the Gangthari ceded by the Nizám, 601-602, 627; Ráni Tárábái rebels and is besieged in the fort of Sátára; Dámáji Gáikwár released and Marátha supremacy established in Gujarát (1754); Marátha defeat at Pánipat and his death (1761), 602.