A History of the Mahrattas v2.c59.5

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¹ [According to General Briggs, who succeeded Grant Duff as Resident, the Rājā was twenty-four years of age at the time of his installation. Mountstuart Elphinstone described him in 1826 as ‘the most civilized Maratha I ever met with, has his country in excellent order, and everything to his roads and aqueducts in a style that would do credit to a European. . . . I do not know what his ancestor would think of so peaceful a descendant.’ (*Life of M. Elphinstone*, vol. ii, p. 188, quoted in D. B. Parasnis’ *Mahableshwar*, Bombay, 1916, pp. 37, 39.)]