Peshwa

Tipu attacked Travancore, opening the Third Anglo-Mysore War; Cornwallis allied himself with the peshwa and the nizam, and Tipu was defeated and forced to cede half his territory, paying a large indemnity (March 19, 1792). ❋ Unknown (2001)

First Anglo-Maratha War, the result of the Bombay government's alliance with the would-be Maratha peshwa, Raghoba. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Bassein before the British arms changed the aspect of affairs, and by the treaty concluded between the peshwa and the British government, the districts of Banda and Hamirpur were transferred to the latter. ❋ Various (N/A)

In 1817, by the treaty of Poona, the British government acquired from the peshwa all his rights, interests and pretensions, feudal, territorial or pecuniary, in ❋ Various (N/A)

Deccan ceded Burhanpur to the peshwa, who in 1778 transferred it to ❋ Various (N/A)

The Mahratta power was, however, on the decline; the flight of the peshwa from his capital to ❋ Various (N/A)

The Mahrattas gradually extended their influence over Bundelkhand, [v. 04 p. 0798] and in 1792 the peshwa was acknowledged as the lord paramount of the country. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Mahrattas became its masters in 1685, from which period it was held in subordination to the peshwa until 1772, when it was captured by a force under General Wedderburn ❋ Various (N/A)

About the year 1735 the raja of Kalinjar's territory, including the present district of Banda, was bequeathed to Baji Rao, the Mahratta peshwa; and from the Mahrattas it passed by the treaties of 1802-1803 to the Company. ❋ Various (N/A)

But except for occasional attendance of the followers of the Sultan's Court at Bijapur, no missionary work seems to have been attempted in these parts — the only Christian stations known to exist in the eighteenth century being those of Tumaricop in the south (ministered by Carmelite tertiaries from Goa); Poona (where a chaplain from Goa was paid by the peshwa), and its is said Bagalhot, once visited by the Jesuits of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

a treaty was signed in 1802, by which his independence of the peshwa and his dependence on British government were secured. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Nana Sahib, the native leader of the mutiny, was the adopted son of the former peshwa, or ruler, of the Mahrattas, as certain states in the west and middle of India are called. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)