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ascendancy of the British dominion over those internal weaknesses 
and vices which have been produced by civil discord out of their 
national prosperity. May heaven long avert the same evils from 
the British! 
On the death of Ballajee Wissanath in 1723, after a series of 
important services to the state, his eldest son Badjerow was ap- 
pointed by Sao rajah to succeed him as peshwa; and his youngest 
son, Chimnajee Appa, was made duan, or principal minister. Dur- 
ing the administration of Badjerow the important island and 
fortress of Bassein, with several other subordinate stations, were 
conquered by the Mahrattas from the Portugueze, about the 
same time that the Mogul armies were defeated, and Delhi taken 
by Nadir Shah. The consequent weakness of these disasters 
greatly assisted the Mahrattas in their expeditions towards the 
northern provinces; in which, under the auspices of Badjerow, 
the tribes of Sindia and Holkar became conspicuous, and Malhar 
Row Holkar, and Rancojee Sindia were entrusted by him with 
large commands. 
The overwhelming power of the Mahrattas, whose tributary 
exactions were now, under various denominations, almost univer- 
sally established, would probably have soon annihilated the neigh- 
bouring Mogul power in the Deccan, had not the resistance to it 
been directed by the great talents of the nabob Nizam al Doula, 
father of the present Nizam al Mulk; the death of Badjerow is 
attributed to his dejection after a defeat which he sustained from 
Nassir Jung, the nabob’s son, in the neighbourhood of Aurung- 
abad. 
On Badjerow’s death, in 1743, his eldest son, Ballajee Row, 
