Shivaji and His Times c13.s10.3

c13.s10.3

Shivaji was in need of money. On his refusal to deliver the fort of Jinji and his other conquests in this region to Golkonda as required by the treaty, the Qutb-Shahi Government rightly stopped the payment of the promised subsidy of 3,000 hun a day. Therefore, he sent letters to the chief places in the coast districts, in advance of his march, demanding loans to the amount of two lakhs of hun, out of which Madras and Pulicat were asked to contribute half a lakh each. The loan, which was only another name for a forced contribution, was naturally refused, and this fact, the Madras President feared, "would serve him for a pretence to play his old pranks."