09-04-2006, 05:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2006, 07:27 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
Another instance of Hindu short sightedness that had terrible costs:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Guerilla tactics triumphed over artillery. It should, however, be clearly noted by those who carelessly accuse the Peshwa of inability or neglect to uproot the Nizam finally from the Deccan, that Shahu was mainly responsible for preserving the Haidarabad State. He thus writes to Bajirao, t4 You must on no account inflict any loss upon Nizam-ul-mulk or injure his susceptibilities. We enjoin this on you as a sacred obligation to the memory of your revered father." At the same time Shahu allowed his Peshwa to exercise full control over the Maratha government and the State.15
new history of the marathas volume II the expansion of the maratha power 1707 1772, govind sakharam sardesai, Pg 118.
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050057179<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This was after the Palkhed campaign, the campaign in which Baji Rao I thoroughly outwitted the Nizam and could have massacred or could have starved them to death at will but all he did was to make the Nizam sign the same worn out treaty that the emperor had already signed during the time of the Saiyid brothers. This Nizam was an ungrateful bast*rd and would oppose Baji Rao all his life, it is this suicidal policy of pardoning traitors that has screwed Hindus thoroughly, we still haven't learned the lesson and handed back all the Pakis who surrendered in 1971 for nothing instead of putting them in slave camps till their death for killing Hindus.
The Hyderabad state would later on go committ anti Hindu atrocities at every turn until the Indian army took control, it's the same story with Tipu Sultan, the Marathas left him to rule on payment of Chauth instead of putting him to death.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Guerilla tactics triumphed over artillery. It should, however, be clearly noted by those who carelessly accuse the Peshwa of inability or neglect to uproot the Nizam finally from the Deccan, that Shahu was mainly responsible for preserving the Haidarabad State. He thus writes to Bajirao, t4 You must on no account inflict any loss upon Nizam-ul-mulk or injure his susceptibilities. We enjoin this on you as a sacred obligation to the memory of your revered father." At the same time Shahu allowed his Peshwa to exercise full control over the Maratha government and the State.15
new history of the marathas volume II the expansion of the maratha power 1707 1772, govind sakharam sardesai, Pg 118.
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050057179<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This was after the Palkhed campaign, the campaign in which Baji Rao I thoroughly outwitted the Nizam and could have massacred or could have starved them to death at will but all he did was to make the Nizam sign the same worn out treaty that the emperor had already signed during the time of the Saiyid brothers. This Nizam was an ungrateful bast*rd and would oppose Baji Rao all his life, it is this suicidal policy of pardoning traitors that has screwed Hindus thoroughly, we still haven't learned the lesson and handed back all the Pakis who surrendered in 1971 for nothing instead of putting them in slave camps till their death for killing Hindus.
The Hyderabad state would later on go committ anti Hindu atrocities at every turn until the Indian army took control, it's the same story with Tipu Sultan, the Marathas left him to rule on payment of Chauth instead of putting him to death.