A History of the Mahrattas v2.c54.1

v2.c54.1

A.D. 1806.—In the preceding chapter we have brought to a close the detail of those important events in Mahratta history which immediately followed the treaty of Bassein. It now becomes requisite to survey the condition of the Mahratta states, before and at the conclusion of those arrangements with the British Government, to review briefly the policy which actuated that Government, and to explain the effects resulting from it on the various Mahratta states. It will then only remain to detail the principal causes which led to the last great revolution and entirely subverted the dominion of the Peishwas.