A History of the Mahrattas v1.c29.1

v1.c29.1

A.D. 1761.—In the end of September, Mahdoo Rao, the second son of the late Peishwa, then in his seventeenth year, proceeded to Satara, accompanied by his uncle, Rugonath, and received investiture as Peishwa from the nominal Raja, who remained precisely in the same state of imprisonment under the obdurate Tara Bye, as before described, until her demise, which happened in the month of December following, at the great age of eighty-six. To the last moment of her existence she maintained her inveteracy against Ballajee Rao and Sewdasheo Rao, declaring that she expired contented, having lived to hear of their misfortunes and death. The Raja’s condition was afterwards so far improved that he was brought down from the fort and suffered to live a prisoner at large in the town of Satara. At a subsequent period he was permitted by Mahdoo Rao to appoint agents for the management of his Patell dues in several villages and the collection of his other hereditary claims as Deshmookh of Indapoor.