Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c39.s2.1

v3.c39.s2.1

The money so badly needed could come only if pressure was put on the richest vassal of the State, the long-defaulting Rajah of Jaipur. So, on 30th November Sindhia with the Emperor and all the assembled troops, as well as the English envoys Anderson and Browne and their staff, made one march of ten miles from Sayyidpurā westwards to Pingora. Here, on the 1st of December, the Emperor at a public darbar appointed the Peshwa as his Deputy (Nāib-i-Munāib) as well as Commander-in-chief (Bakhshi-ul-mamālik), subject to the written condition that Mahadji Sindhia and none else should be the permanent agent of the Peshwa in discharging the actual functions of these exalted offices. The *khilats* and many kinds of rich presents bestowed by the Emperor on the Peshwa as the adjuncts of his new office, as well as complimentary robes for the Peshwa’s regent Nānā Fadnis, were made over to Sindhia for despatch to Poona.