Events
Continuing maladministration by Amir ul-Umara, Muhammad Ali’s son and commander in the southern Carnatic led many polegars to stop paying tribute once again (1775). The Nayak polygar of Panchalamkurichi and the Marava polegar of Sivagiri led the opposition to the Nawab, and the stalemate continued until the outbreak of the Second Mysore War in 1780. Hyder Ali invaded the Carnatic, took Madura and restored the kingdom of Madura under a Nayak prince. Polegar Kattabomman proclaimed his allegiance to the new Madurai king and supported Polygar Varaguna of Sivagiri. On the capture of Panjalam Kurichi in 1783, the original of a treaty between the Dutch Government of Colombo and Kattabomman Nayaka was found in his fort and also various other military stores which were clearly beyond the capacity of any Indian power to collect.” Sivagiri and Panchalamkurichi submitted to the British, paid tribute, and posted bonds for the restoration of their forts (1783). The 1792 treaty between the Nawab and the Company empowered the Company to collect tribute (peshkash) from the polegars and thus to exercise power over them in the name of the Nawab. The tribute it required the polegars to pay bore little relationship to their actual resources and soon the treaty proved to be unenforceable. In 1795, the governor of Madras submitted a proposal to the Nawab, asking that the Company be authorized to reorganize the palayam system.
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