bALAji bAji rAv

aka nAnAsAheb , successor of bAji rAv, under whom marATha conquest peaked (keshava-rAv’s letter on capture of aTTok - IMG ) and further reduced the mughal emperor to a puppet, before the disaster at pAnipaT. He sat and ruled from puNe mainly - Under him the sardar-s got more and more autonomous - with a teenage holkar holding the horse of raghunAth rAv and forcing him to forgo invasion of antarvedI / UP and go instead to pAnchanada.