Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s27.8
Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s27.8
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v2.c27.s27.8
Above all, to the reflective historian, the Pānipat disaster by killing the Peshwā Bālāji Rāo and removing nearly all of his great captains and able civil officers, as well as his grown up son Vishwās Rao and his expert and devoted prime minister Sadāshiv Rāo Bhāu, left the path absolutely open and easy to the guilty ambition of Raghunāth Dādā, the most infamous character in Maratha history. Other losses time could have made good, but this was the greatest mischief done by the debacle at Pānipat.