A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.69

v1.c17.69

This brief survey of the state of the Deccan must be understood to apply to that period which followed the first year of Sumbhajee’s accession, up to the fall of Beejapoor and Golcondah, when additional causes of disturbance and confusion will appear. But previously to entering upon the war which was directed by Aurungzebe in person, it is fit to notice an extraordinary event which occurred amongst our own countrymen, in their then small establishment on the west of India, of which Surat was at that time the residence of the governor, or president of the council, under whom the East India Company’s factories on the coast were managed.