Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c15.32

c15.32

After this agreement was executed, Bājirāv made over part of the sardesmukhi to the Dābhāde, as well as the mokāsa or three-fourths of the svarāj as settled by Bālāji Vishvanāth. The consideration as set forth in the preamble of this agreement was the great improvement effected by the Marātha rulers as regards the wealth and tranquillity of the Dakhan provinces. This was inserted either to give the transaction the appearance of having been executed on the part of the emperor (for otherwise the viceroy had no concern in the state of the Dakhan), or simply as an expression of gratitude on the part of this special viceroy towards the Marāthās who had just brought to terms the Nizām-ul-Mulk, his former rival and enemy. It is even probable that it was merely intended, as usual with such preambles, to veil the forced nature of the treaty.