A History of the Mahrattas v1.c29.9

v1.c29.9

¹ The Bombay Government appear to have been at least as well informed as Nizam Ally, and it is much to be regretted they do not oftener mention the Mahrattas. ‘We well know,’ say they, in their secret consultation of 14th December, 1761, ‘that Nizam Ally is now near Poona, that the Bramins cannot raise a force sufficient to oppose them, from the backwardness of their own officers (who look upon the situation of Nanna’s family as desperate), and the low state of their finances; Tarra Boy (the Sow Rajah’s widow) and all the Morattas at the bottom are against them, and would show it at a proper occasion.’