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PESHWA (Persian for " leader," " guide ")

PESHWA (
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PERSIAN
PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH
Persian for "
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LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )
leader," "
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GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)
guide ") , the

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TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the

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head of the Mahratta confederacy in

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India . Originally the

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PESHWA (Persian for " leader," " guide ")

peshwa was only

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PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime

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MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, but afterwards he supplanted his

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MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and became

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of the

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state,

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FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding an hereditary

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DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty, with the

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capital at

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POONA, or PUNA

Poona . The last peshwa, Baji

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Rao, came into collision with the

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BRITISH

British, and was dethroned in 1818 . His adopted son, Nana

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SAHIB

Sahib, took a leading

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PART

part in the

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Mutiny of 1857, in revenge for being deprived of what he considered his rights .

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