A History of the Mahrattas v2.c55.11

v2.c55.11

¹ [Kopargaon (Kopergaom) in the Ahmadnagar District, sixty miles north of Ahmadnagar town. It was a favourite residence of the Pēshwā Raghunāth Rāo, whose palace is used as a sub-divisional office. Here in 1804 Bālāji Lakshman, the Pēshwā's governor of Khāndesh, and one Manohargir Gosain slew 7,000 Bhīls and threw them into wells. In 1818 the place was occupied by Madras troops, and a few European tombs still testify to that occupation. At Hingani, three miles away, is a cenotaph of Raghunāth Rāo, who died and was cremated there. (B.G., xvii. 723 f.)]