The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.232

v4.c20.232

In the end Nizām-ul-Mulk was compelled to accept all Bājī Rāo's terms, except a demand for the surrender of Shambhūjī, who was permitted to retire to Panhālā. His efforts to prevent Bājī Rāo's advance into Gujarāt by inducing the Marāthā officers employed there to oppose it were foiled by Bājī Rāo's rapid movements and victory over his opponents in April, 1731. When the Peshwā returned at the end of the rainy season, intending to punish the duplicity which had so nearly frustrated his plans, Nizām-ul-Mulk averted his wrath by unfolding a scheme for the extension of the Marāthā power into northern India. The design accorded with Bājī Rāo's policy and ambitions and he welcomed the suggestion, and the Peshwā's brother was at once sent into Mālwa at the head of a Marāthā force.