Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c48.s2.7

v4.c48.s2.7

In fact, the hoarded wealth of the Rajput Governments had been grossly exaggerated in the imagination of the Marathas. Their annual revenue even had sunk to one-third of the normal amount, through lavish grants to the feudal barons or usurpations by them and poor collection owing to maladministration and anarchy. Hence a debtor State which Holkar’s men had first sucked dry could yield nothing to Sindhia’s collectors coming after. This hunt for gold kept alive the quarrel between the two Maratha agents of the Peshwā in Hindustan.