See also:

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

PESHWA (See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian for " See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader," " See also:

• 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 See also:

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

title of the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Mahratta confederacy in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India . Originally the See also:

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

peshwa was only See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, but afterwards he supplanted his See also:

• 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 See also:

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

chief of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding an hereditary See also:

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

dynasty, with the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital at See also:

• POONA, or PUNA

Poona . The last peshwa, Baji See also:

• RAO, SIR DINKAR (1819–1896)
• RAO, SIR T

Rao, came into collision with the See also:

• BRITISH

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

• SAHIB

Sahib, took a leading See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• MUTINY
• MUTINY (from an old verb " mutine," O. Fr. mutin, meutin, a sedition; cf. mod. Fr. emeute; the original is the Late Lat. mota, commotion, from movere, to move)

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