New History of the Marathas v3.c37.s2.6

v3.c37.s2.6

This long drawn and vexatious affair did incalculable harm to the general interests of the Maratha Power in the north. Nana Phadnis himself felt so embarrassed by these developments that he sent his own special confidential agent Vithal Gopal Tambe to the theatre of Mahadji's activities and asked him to make a full and secret report of Mahadji's situation with reference to Ali Bahadur and the Gosavi brothers. Tambe's report from Jaipur dated 25th July 1791 and Hingne's remonstrance in the same connection are valuable documents shedding full light on the mismanagement and confusion raging in the Maratha administration in those quarters.³