The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c6.24

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Of more interest is the paper recounting the favours which Jaeda Rana of Sarceta solicited through his envoys in 1617. In the first place he was anxious to secure military help from the Portuguese in case of foreign invasion. Then he goes on to ask that the *chauth* belonging to one Berba may be paid to him, as the said Berba was his uncle, to whom the *chauth* had been given by the Raja’s ancestors, and the sons and wife of Berba had now transferred to the Raja the *chauth* originally belonging to Berba by a deed of gift, a copy of summary given in a contemporary letter is now available (P. Pissurlencar, *Prince Akbar and the Portuguese*, pp. 5-6).