A History of the Mahrattas v2.c55.64

v2.c55.64

Defective as the system was under Mahdoo Rao Bullal, the Shastree who then superintended and directed the Punchayets was a person of strict integrity, and that Peishwa’s reign was always referred to as the time when a poor man had justice : even the administration of Nana Furnuwees was spoken of with applause ; but Bajee Rao, the only Peishwa who had full leisure to amend the civil government, had neither ability nor inclination for the task.