Lexicographical Neighbors of Peishwahs
Literary usage of Peishwahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 by John William Kaye (1870)
"He knew how the founder of the Mahratta Empire—the head of the great family who
had been the masters of the peishwahs—had, under false pretext of friendly ..."
2. A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-58 by John William Kaye (1874)
"He knew how the founder of the Mahratta Empire—the head of the great family who
had been the masters of the peishwahs—had, under false pretext of friendly ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1805)
"... been only its nominal chiefs ;• the power for some generations having rested
with the peishwahs, whose title designates them as the prime ministers of ..."
4. Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary by George Canning (1850)
"As happens frequently in Oriental sovereignties, the legitimate monarchy had for
some time sunk into a mere name; and in that name the peishwahs had now for ..."
5. A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-58 by John William Kaye (1875)
"But not until the 28th of January, 1851, when Death of there was the weight of
seventy-seven years upon a Jee ao him, did the last of the peishwahs close ..."
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