The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c14.52

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³ Jadunath Sarkar is wrong in calling the place Nandgaon (*Shivaji and his Times*, First Edition, p. 343). From another Bombay letter we learn that Shivaji’s grand fleet assembled at ‘Nagaum a towne hard by Tull’. The place, therefore, must be Nagaon in Kolaba district which is only three miles from Alibag and only six miles from Thal. It is still a large and rich coastal village, and in 1790 Ahalya Bai built a temple here (*Bombay Gazetteer*, Kolaba, p. 351). Nandgaon, which lies about four miles, and not ten miles, as Prof. Sarkar thinks, north of Janjira, cannot by the widest stretch of imagination be described as a ‘towne hard by Tull’. It is, moreover, too near Janjira to be the starting place of an important expedition.