Legacy
The first Peshwa to receive the status of a pantpradhan was Ramchandra Pant Amatya Bawdekar in 1689 by Chatrapati Rajaram. The first Bhat family Peshwa was Balaji Vishwanath Bhat. He was succeeded as Peshwa by his son Baji Rao I, who never lost a battle. Baji Rao and his son, Balaji Baji Rao, oversaw the period of greatest Maratha expansion (see map at right), brought to an end by the Maratha's defeat by an Afghan army at the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761. The last Peshwa, Baji Rao II, was defeated by the British East India Company in the Battle of Khadki which was a part of Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818). After the defeat the Maratha Empire was merged with British India. The empire was annexed to the British East India Company's Bombay province, and the Peshwa was pensioned off. Most wrong gossip is that peshwa was a king but the truth is peshwa was a directly contacted person of king and he was made to follow the king.Peshwa was niether a Deshmukh(landlord) nor a sardar(special commander) but was a way to spread the thought of king and follow the king's rule
In present day's we may say peshwa as a Personal Assistant of the king.
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