...territories; (6) and he would engage "neither to commence nor to pursue in future any negotiations with any power whatever, without giving previous notice and entering into mutual consultation with the Hon'ble East India Company's Government."15 Thus Baji Rao sold away his independence into the hands...

...commence nor pursue in future any negociations with any power whatever, without giving previous notice to, and entering into mutual consultation with, the honourable East India Company's Government : in order to the more effectual fulfilment of this article, his Highness Row Pundit Purdhan Bahadur...