The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.95

v4.c21.95

There still remained the smouldering embers of the war to be extinguished. In Gujarāt, Trimbak Rāo Dābhāde, who had succeeded to the title of *Senāpati* after the death of his father, the veteran Khande Rāo, in January, 1730,¹ was assembling troops and plotting with Pīlājī Gāikwār and other chiefs, "to protect the Rājā's authority", by ridding him of his Peshwā. He had opened negotiations with the Nizām; but Bājī Rāo, by means of his excellent system of espionage, was well aware of all that was taking place. Meanwhile, in the south, prince Shambhūjī, who had been allowed to retire to Panhālā after the signing of the treaty, had allied himself to a freebooter named Udājī Chauhān, and had encamped in bravado on the north side of the Warnā, insolently demanding to be recognised as independent ruler of the southern half of the *swarājya*.