. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . incipal towns. The bestPolice Inspector in the Deccan was Khan Bahadoor FramjiCursetji of Ahmednuggur City. Cursetji and Sons for nearlya century past have been the best friends of poor Englishofficers, their wives and families, in the hour of need orsickness. God reward them 1 The Viccaji family, hailing from Tarapur in the ThanahDistrict, after farming the land and sea customs in theKonkans (1836) took up similar farms in Poona, Sholapar,Ahmednuggur and Khandeish. Members of the family hadal
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . incipal towns. The bestPolice Inspector in the Deccan was Khan Bahadoor FramjiCursetji of Ahmednuggur City. Cursetji and Sons for nearlya century past have been the best friends of poor Englishofficers, their wives and families, in the hour of need orsickness. God reward them 1 The Viccaji family, hailing from Tarapur in the ThanahDistrict, after farming the land and sea customs in theKonkans (1836) took up similar farms in Poona, Sholapar,Ahmednuggur and Khandeish. Members of the family hadalready found their way into the Nizams dominions. Theywere the first (1825—26) to export cotton from the erected the first cotton screws and presses at Khan-gaum and in the neighbouring cotton districts. They madecart roads over the Ghauts, and built bridges on the routefrom the Decern to the coast. Finally, under the NizamsPrime Minister, Raja Chandoo Lai, they established theirbanking firm of Pestomji Viccaji at Hyderadad, andfinanced the Nizams Government for many years; the State. <z oo =, ?^ < THE JEEJEEBHOY AND VICCAJI FAMILIES. 233 Mint at Aurungabad was under their charge. Within onedecade (1835 to 1845) they advanced more than a miUionsterling to the Nizam. Chandoo Lai retired from office in1845, and his successor, Raja Rambax, refusing to settlewith the Viccaji Firm for the modest sum of three hundredand seventy-five thousand pounds, proceeded in true Mogu-lai fashion to sequestrate the Provinces that had been mort-gaged to them. The Firm of course appealed, first to theGovernment of India, then to the Court of Directors, lastlyto the House of Commons, and were as a matter of courserefused redress, on the sound principle, applied to thecase of the Palmers (also large creditors of the Nizam),that British subjects advanced moneys to Native Statesat their own risk, and must not expect the BritishGovernment to aid them in recovering their debts. Thefami
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