[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.s8.266 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.266 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.266 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s8.266](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.266) During the war between the Sátára and Kolhápur branches of the Maráthás no important operations are recorded in the Konkan, and it appears that the rich district of Málvan was left for Rájárám A'ngria and the Sávants to fight for among themselves. In 1731 the treaty of partition betweeu Sátára and Kolhápur was concluded and in this Kolhápur received the whole of the Konkan south of Vijaydurg, while the fort of Ratnágiri was given to Sháhu in exchange for Kopál.⁴ Vijaydurg itself of course remained with the Angriás, but by this time Kánhoji was dead, and his successors by their dissensions among themselves relieved the other powers of a formidable enemy. The Maráthás therefore under Báláji Vishvanáth, having now made peace with the Kolhápur party were able to make a real attack on the Sidi, for the bombardment of Janjira was a periodical performance which scarcely deserved the name of serious warfare. The Sidi had retained the districts of Mahád, Ráygad, Dábhol, and Anjanvel. The Pratinidhi in 1733 with the connivance of a notorious pirate called Shaikhji, who was well in the Sidi's confidence, took a force into the districts of the latter which ravaged the country but did little else, and the Sidi's troops gained the fort of Govalkot while the Pratinidhi was close by at Chiplún.¹ The Bombay Government in December of this year entered into their first formal alliance with the Sidi, but this was directed chiefly against Angria and does not seem to have included the defence of the Sidi's territory against the Marátha state.² From this time however there was no interruption of the good understanding between the Bombay Government and the Sidis, and the alliance was at this time chiefly valued by the English because it enabled them to obtain supplies of beef, which they could not obtain from the Hindu governments in their more immediate neighbourhood.³ It was stipulated that, on Angria being conquered, Khánderi should go to the English and all the rest of the forts to the Sidi except Kolába, which was to be entirely demolished and never rebuilt except with the consent of both governments. It is remarkable that this treaty was signed by seven of the Sidis and without any reference to their being one head of the government.⁴ A writer of that time accordingly speaks of the Janjira government as a republic, and there is no doubt that up almost to the present time (1894) the gádi has been looked upon as to some extent elective. Immediately after this the reigning Sidi died, and the dissensions among his sons enabled the Peshwa Bájiráv to interfere. In 1735 he took Ráygad, which had been lost to the Maráthás since 1690, as well as the forts of Tala and Ghosála, and eventually those of Avchitgad and Birvádi were also ceded and a provision made for Sidi Rahınan whom the Maráthás had supported. - [Previous: c7.s8.265](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.265) - [Next: c7.s8.267](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.267) - [Up: c7.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.266](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s8.266) · Pramāṇa