A History of the Mahrattas v1.c28.30

v1.c28.30

¹ [Kāsi Rājā Pandit, the leading original authority for the battle of Pānīpat, remarks that Sadāshivrāo Bhāu ‘began to exercise his authority in a new and offensive manner, and . . . in all public business he showed a capricious and self-conceited conduct. He totally excluded from his council Mulhar Rāo and all the other chiefs, who were experienced in the affairs of Hindustan . . . and carried on everything by his own opinion alone.’ Kāsi Rājā Pandit, who was an eye-witness of the battle and was much engaged in the negotiations preceding it, was in the employ of Shujā-ud-daula, Nawāb of Oudh. His narrative, translated from the Persian, is published in *Asiatic Researches*, vol. iii (1799). (O.H.I., p. 468; Owen, *Fall of the Moghul Empire*, pp. 239, 240.)]