A History of the Mahrattas v2.c59.30

v2.c59.30

As to claims, the most important upon the British Government were those which regarded the settlement with its ally the Nizam; but no arrangement of their mutual affairs could be made, until it had been fully ascertained what surplus revenue the British Government should derive from the conquest. The advantages immediately gained by the Nizam were exemption from debts amounting to about sixty millions of rupees; and which, on the most moderate estimate, he could not have settled with the Peishwa without making a cession of territory equal to ten lacks of rupees a year. The shares of revenue, within the boundary of the Soobehdar of the Deccan, which the Peishwa or his subjects had enjoyed up to the breaking out of the war, and of which the Nizam now retained the collections, were more than equal to twelve lacks of rupees a year, and the cessions which fell to him from the governments of Holkar and the Raja of Nagpoor amounted to nearly six more; so that the Nizam obtained an addition of at least twenty-eight lacks of rupees of annual revenue.