A History of the Mahrattas v2.c49.17

v2.c49.17

¹ [Chintāman Rāo Patvardhan (Chintamun Rao Putwurdhun) was the only one of the Pēshwā's feudatories who, after the defeat of Bājī Rāo and the annexation of his territories, refused to serve the British Government or to accept the liberal terms offered to the great Jāgīrdārs. He was soon brought to his senses by Mountstuart Elphinstone, and had to submit to the common destiny of these feudal potentates. His character is summed up, in the dispatch dealing with these matters, in the following words: ‘Though otherwise rather respectable and well-intentioned, he has a narrow and crooked understanding, a litigious spirit, and a capricious temper.’ One of his claims at the time of the settlement was the right to wage private war with his relations. (Colebrooke, Life of Mountstuart Elphinstone (1884), ii. 59, 60.)]