A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.49

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Orme also states that the Marāthā demand for *chauth* in 1674 was the outcome of enmity towards the Portuguese who had lately inflicted great severities on many families of the Marāthā religion within their districts, because they refused to become Christians. Crooke (Fryer’s *Travels*, Hakluyt, ii. 25 n.) remarks: ‘Accounts of the atrocities, possibly in some degree exaggerated, reached Europe on the publication of *Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa*, by the Physician Dellon (Leyden, 1687, Paris and London, 1688). For early accounts see Pyrard de Laval, ii. 52, 92 ff.; Linschoten, i. 182; Tavernier, ed. Ball, i. 201 f. For a good modern account see Fonseca, 210 ff. (*Hist. and Arch. Sketch of Goa*, Bombay, 1878).’