Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s27.6

v2.c27.s27.6

What then remained to the returned Maratha dictators of Delhi in 1772? Only the Jāt country, Mewāt and Hariānā in the west, which became the cockpit of the empire during the next two decades. The ambition and arms of the revived Maratha power in the north were henceforth cooped up within the barren sands of Rajputana and the broken infinitely chequered wilderness of Bundelkhand,—all Hindu territory,—and their activities there for the forty years from 1765 to 1805 have left a legacy of hatred for the Maratha name in Rajput hearts, which has not yet died out.