"War and Peace between the Marathas and the British" Topic

…around 1800

"First, a brief sketch of the situation in the Deccan plateau in central India in 1795, since the last few years of the eighteenth century constituted a turning point from several points of view. The Marathas were under the rule of a figurehead monarch named Shahu Raja II (who reigned from 1777 to 1808) based in Satara, while the political affairs of the Maratha Confederacy were managed by the Peshwa from Poona. In 1795, Peshwa Madhavrao Narayan died accidentally when he fell from the balcony of his residence, aged only twenty-one. The Chancellor in Poona, Nana Fadnis, who had conducted all the current affairs of the Confederacy since the murder of Madhavrao Narayan's father, Narayan Rao, in 1772, remained more or less at the helm of Maratha affairs until his own death in March 1800. After a lengthy succession conflict, following upon Madhavrao Narayan's accidental death in 1795, Fadnis finally permitted the defunct Peshwa's cousin, Baji Rao II, to be installed on the Poona cushion (or Gādi) in 1796. Baji Rao II was to be the last Peshwa, since he was forced to surrender to Mountstuart Elphinstone in 1818, and Pratap Sinh Raja of Satara (1808-1839) signed a treaty of subsidiary alliance with the British the same year, acknowledging British paramountcy over Maratha Territory. Satara was finally annexed by the British Government in 1848 when the last Maratha Raja, Shahji Appasaheb (1839-1848), was forced into political oblivion…"
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