A History of the Mahrattas v1.c22.11

v1.c22.11

When Bajee Rao advanced into Malwa, it was his design to engage the Raja’s mind with petty affairs in the Concan. Divisions of authority, contending factions, and the turbulent disposition of some of its inhabitants, afforded ample field, within the small tract from Goa to Bombay, for engaging and fatiguing attention; but as these authorities had also a large share in the transactions of the Bombay government during the last century, they demand, as a record of our own history, particular enumeration. Sawunt, the principal Deshmookh of Waree, occupied his hereditary territory in that quarter, but having suffered from Kanhojee Angria’s attacks, prior to the late peace between the Rajas of Satara and Kolapoor, he bore an enmity to Angria’s family ever after.