All might have fallen out as he anticipated, had it not been that the Nana Sahib, the adopted heir of the late peshwa, was rajah of Bithur in the neighbourhood.
But can he find a way to stop the Rajah from exercising his ancient right to consummate the marriage of his servant?
His general, Mir Jumla, defeated the rajah, who fled to the mountains, and most of the chiefs made their submission to the conqueror.
In 1666 the rajah Palakkah, whose father and grandfather had been murdered by the family of Hassan, the tyrant of Sumatra, made common cause with the Dutch against that despot.
Its condition encouraged the Burmese to depose the rajah, and to make Assam a dependency of Ava.
Its roll of kings extends deep into pre-historic times, but the first rajah capable of indentification flourished about the year 76 A.D.
The place is celebrated as the site of a battle fought on the 23rd of September 1803 between the combined Mahratta forces under Sindhia and the rajah of Berar and the British under Major-General Wellesley, afterwards the duke of Wellington.
The rajah of Patala at the apex of the Indus delta abandoned his country and fled.
The woman left the town, took refuge with an independent rajah, and there carried out her self-devoted purpose.