The Imperial Gazetteer of India Ratlam to Sirmur

Bounded on the north by the Native State of Janjira and Kolaba District ; on the east by Sdtdra District and the Native State of Kolhipur ; on the south by the Siwantwari Native State and Portuguese possessions of Goa; and on the west by the Arabian Sea. [...] While the banks of the rivers produce fine crops of rice in the rains and of pulse in the cold weather and some of the inland valleys exhibit the utmost fertility the soil is as a rule poor and barren and supports with difficulty its dense population. [...] The decline of the Portugueseopower was accompanied by the rise of that of the Marithas who under Sivajf established themselves in Ratndgiri (x658–I68o) defeating the Bildpur armies repelling the Mughals and overcoming the Sidis and Portugueise. [...] On the other hand the tenants were deep in the khot's debt and wholly at his mercy and the first efforts of Goverment were directed to ascertain the extent of the relative rights of the knots' and their tenants. [...] It forms the most northern of the four Districts of the Rawal Pindi Division and occupies the tablland between the Salt Range the outer Himalayas and the Indus.