[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c7.s8.188 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.188 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.188 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s8.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.188) It cannot of course be supposed that the general condition of the Konkan during the reign of Shiváji was prosperous according to our present understanding of the word. Fryer⁴ speaks of both Kalyán and Chaul as utterly ruined in 1672, the Moghals having been expelled from both at the time of his visit.⁵ Dábhol had been burnt so often since 1508 that but little could have been left in Shiváji's time, and it is then described as much ruined by the wars and decrease in trade.⁵ A curious proof of its desolation is that, a few years after this, this once great city was granted to the Shirké family.⁶ There would thus remain of the old marts of the Konkan only Bassein in the north, and this, as has been shown was gradually declining, and Rájápur in the south, which Baldæus⁷ calls one of the cities of note of the Bijápur kingdom, and which alone of the older towns had prospered under Shiváji. On the other hand Mahád had no doubt increased and flourished from its neighbourhood to Ráygad, and Ráygad itself was of course a small centre of prosperity. At the same time it is clear from what has gone before, that the great ravages of war had fallen on the district between Kalyán and Ráygad. The coast of the Northern Konkan had felt them but little; but on the other hand the Portuguese could no longer pretend to be a match for the Arab pirates. - [Previous: c7.s8.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.187) - [Next: c7.s8.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.189) - [Up: c7.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.188) · Pramāṇa