7/21/2019 Bajirao I Part 6

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/bajirao-i-part-6 1/1

Bajirao believed that the Mughal Empire was in decline, and wanted to take advantage of this

situation with aggressive expansion in north India. Sensing the declining fortune of the Mughals, he

is reported to have said, Strike, strike at the trunk and the branches will fall off

themselves. !owever, as a new "eshwa, he faced several challenges#