The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s9.113

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No further operations took place in the Konkan after the rains, and in March 1782 the treaty of Salbye was concluded² by which all the recent conquests including Bassein were restored to the Maráthás, though the restoration was not absolutely made for upwards of a year,³ and the cession of Sálsette, Elephanta, Karanja, and Hog Island to the English finally confirmed. No further change of any importance was made in the governing powers of the Konkan for the next thirty-five years, but it may here be mentioned that in 1782 the Maráthás, who had gradually taken from the Jawhár Rája the greater part of his territories, confirmed him in the possession of the small remainder, which he holds to this day.⁴ In 1783-84, a dispute which the Marátha state had with the Pant Pratinidhi of Vishálgad about the districts near Ratnágiri held by them jointly was settled by a treaty. These districts included a considerable part of the Sangameshvar Ratnágiri and Rájápur sub-divisions, the Peshwa’s subhedár at Ratnágiri being the chief authority of that government. The river and port of Sangameshvar are mentioned in this treaty as if they were of importance, and among other stipulations is one that the khots and the pátils who used to be kept two months in Vishálgad for the settlement of their accounts, must not in future be detained more than four days.⁵