The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.104

v4.c21.104

By this time the opinion began to prevail that only one person could save the empire, and stem the flood of Marāthā invasion. This was the Nizām, who, as we have seen, had shaken the dust of Delhi from off his feet fourteen years before. He was now at Burhānpur, closely watched by Chimāji Appa, who had received orders, if his opponent crossed the Narbadā, "to fall on his rear and put heel-ropes on him". The Nizām's change of front was no doubt inspired by the apprehensions he must have felt at the growing power of the Marāthās in Hindūstān.