A warship, seventy-two villages and a treaty of 1779: how the Portuguese came to collect revenue here

Background

The Marathas and the Portuguese stood on the same side against the Mughals for a while, and in 1779 they signed a treaty. The agreement came from the Maratha side, where the Peshwa gave his word. Under that treaty the Portuguese were allowed to collect the revenue of this territory. The land was then 72 villages, which were called parganas at the time. The revenue was given in return for a warship named Santana, which had been taken and never handed back. Before all this the area had been held by the Koli chiefs. The Hindu kings of Jawhar and Ramnagar defeated them, and the Marathas later took these territories and annexed them to their own kingdom. A reader should note that the treaty did not hand over the land as property, but let the Portuguese take its revenue.