A History of the Mahrattas v2.c46.10

v2.c46.10

¹ [‘There seems great reason to suppose,’ wrote the Assistant Resident, Poona, to the Governor-General on October 29, 1795, ‘that Nānā’s principal arguments against Bājīrāo’s succession, particularly with the great Marāthā chieftains at the Grand National Council, will be drawn from the connexion between that branch of the family and us. My messages since the accident of the morning of the 25th instant will probably, if he submits them to the Council, tend in some degree to baffle those arguments; and if he withholds them from their knowledge, I shall perhaps take some means of bringing them forward again.’ (Forrest, Selections (Marāthā Series), i. 543.)]