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PESHWA (Persian for " leader," " guid...

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PESHWA (Persian for " leader," " guide ")  , the title of the head of the Mahratta confederacy in India . Originally the peshwa was only prime minister, but afterwards he supplanted his master and became chief of the state, founding an hereditary dynasty, with the capital at Poona . The last peshwa, Baji Rao, came into collision with the
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British, and was dethroned in 1818 . His adopted son, Nana
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Sahib, took a leading
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part in the Mutiny of 1857, in revenge for being deprived of what he considered his rights .

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