balAjI janArdana

aka nAnA phaDnavIs, a capable spy-master, who governed the confrederacy well as a regent in times of fratricide among the pEshvas, destroyed british bombay forces that attempted to take puNyapura 1779 [D]. One among the proverbial 3.5 wise men (UK), this “half-wise” (sarcasm) chitpAvan trounced the other three disloyal “wise” deshastha-s serving rAghoba, nAgpur and the nizAm.