. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . he island was given by the King of Portugal toEngland as the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, on hermarriage with Charles II.; for one Kharshedji Panday con-tracted with the Portuguese Government for men andmaterials for the Bombay fortification. The first Parsee who appears in the history of the Deccanwas Kharshedji Jamshedji Modi*—he originally came fromCambay, and as a young man was taken into his ofifice byColonel Close, the Resident at Poona; exceptionallyintelligent and energetic, and pos
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . he island was given by the King of Portugal toEngland as the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, on hermarriage with Charles II.; for one Kharshedji Panday con-tracted with the Portuguese Government for men andmaterials for the Bombay fortification. The first Parsee who appears in the history of the Deccanwas Kharshedji Jamshedji Modi*—he originally came fromCambay, and as a young man was taken into his ofifice byColonel Close, the Resident at Poona; exceptionallyintelligent and energetic, and possessed in an eminentdegree of that tact which enables Parsees under any circum- * Otherwise called Khoosroojee Mody. 228 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. stances to live on good terms with other races with whomthey happen to be brought in contact, no matter howdifferent their creeds and customs, Karshedji Modi waspromoted in 1809 to the post of native agent. In this capacityhe necessarily had much intercourse with Bajee Rao, the lastof the Peishwas; and Bajee Rao, not only consulted him on. PARSEES—LADY AND GENTLEMAN. all important questions, but also appointed him, with a largesalary, to the post of Sur-Soobha or Governor of the Car-natic, a post which he held at the same time as he filledthat of native agent under the English Resident. Modi in this extraordinary dual position of trust, wasthoroughly faithful to both the British and to the Mahratta ACCOUNT OF KHARSHEDJI MODI, MINISTER. 229 Court. He built himself a house on the edge of a water-course, half-way between the -Sungum (British Residency)and the walls of Poona city. It was at this very nullahor watercourse, and all around the Modis bungalow, thatBajee Raos cavalry under Phadkay, were checked in theircharge on the little British Force assembled on the battlefieldof Kirkee, behind it. It was within a few yards of this bun-galow that poor Mr. Rand and Lieutenant Ayerst weretreacherously done to death on the Di
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