The Cambridge History of the British Empire: British India, 1497-1858John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Raja Sinha's requests that the town should be given up to him , the Dutch strongly fortified it . The viceroy at Goa , regretting his uncompromising rejection of the offers made him the year before , now wrote to Batavia that he was ...
... Raja Sinha's requests that the town should be given up to him , the Dutch strongly fortified it . The viceroy at Goa , regretting his uncompromising rejection of the offers made him the year before , now wrote to Batavia that he was ...
Page 374
... raja decisively at Argaon in November , stormed the strong fortress of Gawilgarh , and thus forced the raja to sign the Treaty of Deogaon , 15 December , under the terms of which the latter ceded Cuttack to his conquerors and ...
... raja decisively at Argaon in November , stormed the strong fortress of Gawilgarh , and thus forced the raja to sign the Treaty of Deogaon , 15 December , under the terms of which the latter ceded Cuttack to his conquerors and ...
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... raja of Satara , whose powers and prestige rapidly declined from the moment when the appointment of Peshwa became hereditary in the family of Balaji Visvanath ( 1714-20 ) . Although the raja continued after that date to be regarded as ...
... raja of Satara , whose powers and prestige rapidly declined from the moment when the appointment of Peshwa became hereditary in the family of Balaji Visvanath ( 1714-20 ) . Although the raja continued after that date to be regarded as ...
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