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

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