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Mhadarow had the same views in the nomination of Mhada- 

 jee Sindia, as Bhaou had in the first elevation of the family, and 

 he shortly after made use of him to thwart his uncle Ragonalh 

 Row in an expedition against Gohud; by whose means he was 

 obliged to return unsuccessful and disgraced to the Deccan. Soon 

 after this transaction, Mhadarow made it a plea for confining his 

 uncle; and from thence forward the good fortune of Madajee 

 Sindia advanced with such rapidity as to give him very consider- 

 able weight in the Mahratla empire; and the late cession of 

 Baroche and its dependencies, added still more to his conse- 

 quence. 



So brilliant had the star of his destiny become in 1783, that- 

 he was selected to be the mediator of the treaty of peace between 

 the English East India Company, and the Mahratla state. By 

 this treaty, among the purgunnas in Guzerat ceded to the Mah- 

 rattas, were those of Dhuboy, Zinore, and the other districts under 

 my jurisdiction; which I was directed to surrender on the 24th of 

 April 1783, to such officer as might be deputed by the Mahralta 

 state to receive them, agreeably to the terms of the treaty. 



At the same time the Chief and Council of Baroche were or- 

 dered by the Governor and Council at Bombay to deliver up that 

 important city and its valuable purgunna, to Bascar Row, agent 

 forMhadajee Sindia; to whom it had been presented by the gover- 

 nor General and Supreme Council of Bengal, " in testimony of 

 the sense which they entertained of the generous conduct mani- 

 fested by the said Mhadajee Sindia, to the government of Bom- 

 bay, at Wargaum, in January 1779; and of his humane treat- 

 ment and release of the English gentlemen, who had been deli- 



