History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.303

v2.c41.303

With the accession of Raghuji Bhonsle II as *Senā Ṣāhib Ṣubah* or Rājā of Nagpur with his own father Mudhoji as the regent, a new era begins in the history of the Nagpur State and therefore of Orissa. Early in his reign Jānuji had followed the policy of Śivarām Bhaṭṭa Sāthe and demanded *chauth* from the English in Bengal persistently, but his own defeats at the hands of the Peshwa Mādhav Rāo I and the Niẓām in 1769 weakened his power. The Niẓām also practically crushed him and therefore his later demands for *chauth* were not emphatic. After his death the Civil War between Sābājī and Mudhoji so much weakened the Nagpur State that Mudhoji, after his final triumph, became subservient to the English East India Company.