Lexicographical Neighbors of Peshwa
Literary usage of Peshwa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Annually plunder the Territories of the Nizam, the peshwa, ... Secretly encouraged
by the peshwa. — Subsidiary Troops of Poona and Hyderabad in movement. ..."
2. The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in India by Alfred Comyn Lyall (1894)
"If the chiefs of these armies combined to upset the peshwa they might seize ...
The peshwa, Baji Rao, had hitherto evaded all overtures from the English for ..."
3. The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in India by Alfred Comyn Lyall (1894)
"The peshwa, galled by the yoke which the recent treaty had fixed upon him,
collected his forces and broke out into open hostility, attacking the British ..."
4. The History of India by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1843)
"The peshwa never recovered the shock. He slowly retreated from his frontier
towards Puna, and died in a temple which he had himself erected near that city, ..."
5. The History of India, from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord by John Clark Marshman (1867)
"The peshwa, whether he believed the story or not, determined to support it, and
advanced to Satara with a powerful army. Every avenue to the couch of the ..."
6. The History of British India: From 1805 to 1835 by Horace Hayman Wilson (1846)
"Operations against the peshwa. —General Smith marches to ... Smith resumes his
pursuit.—Overtakes the peshwa at Ashti.—Cavalry action at Ashti. ..."
7. Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1827)
"The restlessness of the peshwa, I Fail of the (which might be called perverse if
we were not obliged to acknowledge | Pe<hw*- that an impatience of ..."
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