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INDIA - FREEDOM
STRUGGLE - TREATY OF SURAT |
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Date of signing |
March 06, 1775
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Description |
- After the death of the
peshwa Narāyan Rāo in 1773, his uncle Raghunath Rāo tried to
secure the succession.
- The East India Company’s Bombay government supported
Raghunath’s claim in the Treaty of Surat in
return for Salsette Island and Bassein (Vasai).
- The then Governor General of India, Warren Hastings,
claimed a right of control over the decisions of the Bombay
Government, annulled the Treaty of Surat and negotiated a
very different new agreement, known as the Treaty of
Purandhar (signed on Mar 01, 1776), in terms of which
Raghunath was pensioned and his cause abandoned, but
Salsette and the Broach revenues were retained by the
British. The signing of this treaty triggered the beginning
of the First Anglo-Maratha War that ended only in 1982 with
Treaty of Salbai signed on May 17, 1982.
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