Administrative System of the Marathas c7.s4.3

c7.s4.3

⁶ Prof. Sarkar himself admits that civil Governors were appointed for the newly conquered tracts and an army of occupation was left to quell all disturbances and risings. He goes further and says—"The districts that he retained in Central and Eastern Mysore as the result of his Karnatak expedition, had to be connected with his old dominions by the conquest of the Southern corner of Bijapur." This was effected and "the country was formed into a regular province of Shivaji's kingdom and placed under Janardan Narayan Hanumante as Viceroy" (Shivaji and His Times, pp. 405-407). It is difficult to reconcile this with the Professor's dictum that, "It is incredible that a born strategist like Shivaji could have really intended to annex permanently a territory on the Madras coast, which was separated from his own dominions by two powerful and potentially hostile states like Bijapur and Golkonda, and more than 700 miles distant from his capital." (Shivaji and His Times, First edition, pp. 366-67). This is, however, not the place to examine this question in detail.