A History of the Mahrattas v1.c8.32

v1.c8.32

It has already been stated that the country at the period of the Mahomedan conquest appears to have been divided into many small principalities, more or less independent. It is probable, that most of those Polygars, whose country lay in the accessible parts, were induced either to join or to submit to the head of the new state in 1347, which is the date assigned ¹ to the accession of Sultan Alla-ud-Deen.