The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s9.111

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During the progress of these events Residents had been appointed at Belápur, Kalyán, and Karanja, and from their reports some idea of the state of the country may be gained. The chief object of the Residents was of course to collect the revenues, and in February 1781 (before the operations of that year about Kalyán and the Gháts had begun) it is reported that "Badlápur and Dámod, which were considerable towns, and every village hut and stack on the high road between Khopavli and Kalyán had been burnt, and the inhabitants for the most part fled." The non-return of seventy-five carts and forty-four oxen which had been taken from Ágáshi by the army, would, it was said, cause great distress to the district of Bassein.¹