CONTENTS:- 1. Introductory; 2. Rise, growth and decline of the Savanur state; 3. Savanur as a princely state; 4. Administrative system; 5. Agricultural production and land revenue; 6. Socio-religious life of the people; Appendices: 1. Temples and Mathas apparently under the patronage of the Savanur Nawabs; 2. Genealogies of the Savanur Nawabs; 3. Nawabs of Savanur with their reign periods; 4. Diwans in the Savanur state.
DESCRIPTION
The book deals with the political, administrative, socio-economic and religious history of North Karnatak (Dharwad and Belgaum districts completely and Bijapur district south of the Krishna river) under the Nawabs of Savanur who ruled over this area from 1672 to 1948 after the Adil Shahs of Bijapur. From 1672 to 1794 they ruled largely as independent rulers, and thereafter their kingdom was turned into a princely state, and the extent of its area was reduced considerably. The book is a pioneering work, it being the first historical work of its kind on the subject. It throws open to the world of historians a subject about the different aspects of which independent works can be written. It explores new avenues on the uncharted sea of the subject trailing behind new lines of development for the coming historians.
