Question

Write about Balaji Bajirao.

Answer 1

1. When Balaji Bajirao was the Peshwa, Emperor Shahu died (1749).
2. He summoned all the contending factions and forced them to accept the conditions he laid down.
3. He decided that the capital of the kingdom would henceforward be Pune, not Satara.
4. All power and authority were now concentrated in the Peshwas’s office.
5. The Maratha peasant warrior band was reconfigured and its run came to an end.
6. Maratha soldiers were not permitted now to retire from battlefields each year for the purpose of cultivating their land.
7. Soldiers were required to live in forts and towns far away from their homes.
8. They were trained as infantrymen as well as horsemen.
9. The large guns were nominally under the command of Maratha officers.
10. During the period of the Peshwa Balaji Bajirao, the northern frontiers of the Maratha state were rapidly touching Rajasthan, Delhi, and Punjab.
11. The Marathas launched raids from Nagpur against Bihar, Bengal, and Odisha. Notwithstanding the conflict between the Marathas and the Nizam over Karnataka, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu regions were effectively brought under the control of the Marathas.