A History of the Mahrattas v2.c58.38

v2.c58.38

¹ [Bithūr (Beithoor) is in the Cawnpore District, and during the early years of the nineteenth century was for a time the civil headquarters of the district. Bājī Rāo owned extensive palaces in the town, which were occupied at the time of the Mutiny by his adopted son, Dhondo Pant, alias Nānā Sāheb. The town was captured by Havelock on July 19, 1857, when the palaces were utterly destroyed. (I.G., viii. 250–51 (1907).)] A masterly estimate of Bājī Rāo’s character was drawn by Mountstuart Elphinstone in a report on the resources and character of the Pēshwā’s government prepared in November 1815. It is reproduced in full on pp. 287–9, vol. i, of Colebrooke’s *Life of M. Elphinstone* (1884).]