History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c74.s4.1

v5.c74.s4.1

The year 1689 continued to be as bad for the Karnatak as the year before. The roads were unsafe; Mughal and Maratha armies daily plundered the country. Country-made cotton and other goods could not be brought to the English factory at Kunimedu for export, by reason of the constant warfare and robbery in the region from there to Porto Novo and the deepening scarcity. In July the English factory at Porto Novo was withdrawn for these troubles. The situation in the Karnatak was adversely reacted upon by the situation in the Telingana coast immediately north of it, where "a great famine" was raging in the Vizagapatam district and frequent wars were going on between the new Mughal faujdar and the local rajahs. (*Madras Diary*, 25 March 1689).