The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c6.40

c6.40

15-20), we read ‘that some of Sevagees forces have bin att Callapore which redeemed itselfe from their fury by a present-giving of 1500 pagodas, thence they went to a place called Songam which gave them 500 pagodas’. The total revenue of Kolhapur must have largely exceeded 6,000 pagodas. It must also be recorded to his credit that he did not in any way molest the towns and villages which paid *chauth*; and the foreign merchants at Surat suffered comparatively little annoyance from him. Whenever he annexed a town or a district, he took all possible care to protect the population from the military license of his soldiery.¹