Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s5.9

v1.c8.s5.9

This meant in effect that the province was merely partitioned between these two Marātha leaders as their respective spheres of influence; each of them simply contracted not to encroach on the other's special hunting ground, but was left free to do what he liked in his own part of the subah, without any moral or legal responsibility to protect the payer of the blackmail in the other parts of his dominion.