History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.67

v2.c44.67

The brave Mudhoji Bhonsle *alias* Āppā Ṣāhib, the son of Vyaṅkājī *alias* Manyā Bāpu, was now paying very bitterly for his attachment to the national cause and to the Peshwā Bājī Rāo II and for the sin of the murder of Pārsoji Bhonsle, the son and successor of Raghujī II. Immediately after the battles of Sītābaldī and Nāgpur Baji Rao II and his army of treacherous Marathas and Hindustanis were defeated on the Wardha. Āppā Ṣāhib surrendered but further pressure compelled him to fly to Asirgaḍh and thence to Daulat Rāo Śinde in Hindustan.¹ The Nagpur State lay prostrate at the feet of the British conqueror. Āppājī Bhonsle had been compelled to cede a great part of it to the British and this cession was confirmed by the treaty of 1826 by the child Raghujī Bhonsle III, the adopted son of Pārsojī Bhonsle.² One of the first acts of the British Government was to annul the supremacy of the chiefs of Patna and Sambalpur over the zamindars of the neighbouring countries. They were, besides Patna and Sonpur:—