A History of the Mahrattas v1.c26.40

v1.c26.40

Abdul Kauf Khān, who obtained in 1680 from Aurangzeb the grant of a jāgīr comprising Bankāpur, Torgal and Azamnagar or Belgaum, with a command of 7,000 horse. In 1730 the family, as deputies of the Nizam, received additional territory, which the Pēshwā seized in 1747. In 1786 Tipū Sultān, with whom the Nawāb was connected by marriage, stripped him of much territory; but the Nawāb, allying himself with the Marāthās, regained a part of it, and obtained from the Pēshwā a pension of Rs. 10,000 a month. The modern Savanūr State, with an area of 70 square miles, forms part of the Dhārwār District, Bombay, and represents the territory which was confirmed in the Nawāb’s possession at the close of the last Marāthā war. (I.G. Bom., 1909, ii. 501.)