A History of the Mahrattas v1.c22.33

v1.c22.33

A.D. 1736.—Bajee Rao, owing to the vast army he had kept up, both to secure his conquests and to overcome his rivals, had become greatly involved in debts. His troops were in arrears, the Soucars (or Bankers), to whom he already owed a personal debt of many lacks of rupees, refused to make any further advances, and he complained bitterly of the constant mutinies and clamours in his camp, which occasioned him much vexation and distress.² He levied the Chouth and Surdeshmookhee in Malwa, and applied through Raja Jey Sing for their formal cession in that province; and likewise for a confirmation of the deeds granted by Sur Boolund Khan for Guzerat. The Tooranee Moghuls, who formed a considerable party in the ministry, were decidedly against a compromise so disgraceful; Khan Dowran and the Emperor, by whom it had been already tacitly yielded, were disposed by the advice of Jey Sing to acknowledge the title in due form; but, in the course of the negotiation which ensued between the imperial minister and the Peishwa, both parties went beyond their original intentions, and hastened the advancing reconciliation between Mohummud Shah and Nizam Ool Moolk.