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subdued ; the officers of the lately subverted Bijapur and Golkonda Governments, who were loth to recognise their new Mughal master ; and the Maratha intruders representing the houses of Shivaji and Vyankoji. To the first of these classes belonged Yachapa Nayak,[*] whose ancestors claimed to be Rajputs of Qanauj and had obtained the fort of Satgarh (26 miles west of Vellore) from the ministers of Rajah Pratap Rudra of Warangal. [Dil. 116a.] The Qutb Shahi Government had recognised his position by creating him commander of its local levies (sehbandi.) After the fall of Golkonda he had resisted the Mughal conquest of the Kadapa district [Dil. 98b] in the company of Md. Sadiq, but had been won over to the imperial side and sent with a considerable force (early in 1690) to expel the Maratha plundering bands infesting the Conjeveram district. [Mad. Diary, 1st May 1690.] Soon afterwards these two officers had revolted from the imperial side, and Yachapa had usurped the country up to the Madras coast. [Mad. Diary, 21st July.] When Rajaram reached Jinji, Yachapa joined him and lived in that fort for some time as his chief military supporter. [Dil., 112 b ; Mad.