Part 2: From the high-water mark at Delhi to the fatal Treaty of Bassein, Sardesai’s Main Currents of Maratha History analyses how internal flaws doomed the empire built by the Peshwas. Sir Charles Warre Malet, concluding a treaty in 1790 with the Peshwa, by Thomas Daniell (1805). Next to Shivaji Maharaj, Sardesai regarded Chhatrapati Shahu as the most consequential figure in the making of the Maratha state. Emerging from eighteen years of Mughal captivity, Shahu presided ove