A History of the Mahrattas v1.c10.15

v1.c10.15

Shahjee’s political connection with his relations, the Jadows, Deshmookhs of Sindkheir, which had never been intimate, was entirely dissolved from the time of his quitting the imperial service; and Jugdeo Rao Jadow, his wife’s uncle, acted on the side of the Moghuls during the war carried on against him. Domestic affairs have great influence on the public conduct of Mahrattas; and there may have been private reasons for Jugdeo Rao’s animosity. Shahjee, in the year 1630, married into another family, named Mohitey, which was resented by Jeejee Bye,² his first wife; and she retired to some of her own relations, with whom she appears to have been residing when taken in 1633.