Lexicographical Neighbors of Peishwa
Literary usage of Peishwa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Mahrattas by James Grant Duff (1921)
"IN the month of July, as soon as the arrangements resulting from the treaty of
Poona were put in a train of adjustment, the peishwa left his capital, ..."
2. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sunnuds, Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1863)
"was concluded in October 1783 between Scindia and the English on the one part,
and the peishwa on the other, to enforce his submission in accordance with ..."
3. The History of the British Empire in India by Edward Thornton (1842)
"Gunga Bye, the widow of the late peishwa. Hugo- CHAP. x. nath Row thereupon
commenced his march towards Poona and met with some success; but the want of ..."
4. The Dictionary of English History edited by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1896)
"The peishwa himself, however, repented of the treaty as soon as he had ...
A British force was ordered up to Poonah, and the peishwa was compelled to accept ..."
5. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 by Spencer Walpole (1890)
"... a servant who had ministered to his pleasures and who enjoyed his confidence.
The peishwa had inherited a dispute with the ..."
6. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Rhind, William Wallace, Clarence Dalrymple (1832)
"... succeeds—Rise of Holkar and Sindia—Great Power of the peishwa—Reduction of
... of Sindia and Holkar—Defeat of Sindia and the peishwa—Subsidiary Alliance ..."
7. History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1857)
"The peishwa immediately invested the little body of heroes with all his forces,
and, deeming victory secure, ascended a neighbouring height with the Rajah ..."
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