Page:A revised and enlarged account of the Bobbili zemindari.djvu/95

Till then it seems that according to the "Settlement of Bussy in the year 1757," the estate of Luckwarup-Cotah was under the Bobbili Samasthanam. In the above book M. Bussy calls Venkata Ranga-Rao Sirdar of Bobbili and Luckwarup-Cotah. It is stated in the Madras Manual that, after Vengal Rao's death, the Vizianagaram family at last compromised with their rivals and leased the Kavitey and Rajam pergunnahs to them, but this can scarcely be believed from the other information available, and for the following reasons. By this supposed compromise Chinna Ranga-Rao, instead of receiving any consideration from the hands of the Vizianagaram family, would lose the absolute right over these pergunnahs, which had been regained by force of arms by his uncle, and would become a subsidiary chief under Vizianagaram. Moreover, if the Vizianagaram family had secured proprietary rights over those pergunnahs, why did Dewan Sitarama Raj invite