A History of the Mahrattas v2.c46.24

v2.c46.24

The fortunes of Nana Furnuwees were now in the general opinion, and perhaps in his own, desperate; but on being forced to abandon half measures, into which he was misled by a timid disposition, the vigour of his judgement, the fertility of his expedients, the extent of his influence, and the combination of instruments which he called into action, surprised all India, and from his European contemporaries procured for him the name of ‘the Mahratta Machiavel.’