History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.60

v2.c44.60

Starvation and ill-usage compelled the pāiks of Orissa to rise against the British. In writing of the pāik rebellion European writers, even of the present century, have forgotten to include one important factor, the general unrest among the Maratha population throughout India. It is well known to every Indian that the Peshwa Sawāi Bāji Rāo was not really conquered at Ashtā and Koregāon but long before that by the pen of the Honorable Mountstuart Elphinstone at the Residency of Kirkee. The process was long and painful both to Bāji Rāo II and the entire Maratha nation. The long process of arrangements for the sale of the Maratha nation by the Maratha people themselves had awakened mixed feelings among Marathas outside the limits of Gujarat and the Deccan.