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NANA FARNAVIS (1741-18o0)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 160 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NANA FARNAVIS (1741-18o0) , the See also:

great Mahratta See also:minister at See also:Poona at the end of the 18th See also:century. His real name was Balaji Janardhan Bhanu; but, like many other See also:Mahrattas, he was always known by a See also:kind of See also:nickname. Nana properly means a maternal grandfather; Farnavis is the See also:official See also:title of the See also:finance minister, derived from See also:lard = an See also:account and navis = a writer. He was See also:born at See also:Satara on the 4th of May 1741, and was the son of a Chitpavan See also:Brahman, of the same class as the See also:Peshwa, who held the hereditary See also:office of Farnavis. He escaped from the fatal See also:battle of See also:Panipat in 1761; and from about 1774 was the leading personage in directing the affairs of the Mahratta confederacy, though never a soldier. This was the See also:period when Peshwas rapidly succeeded one another, and there was more than one disputed See also:succession. It was the policy of Nana Farnavis to hold together the confederacy against both See also:internal dissensions and the growing See also:power of the See also:British. He died at Poona on the 13th of See also:March 1800, just before the Peshwa placed himself in the hangs of the British and thus See also:broke up the Mahratta confederacy. In an extant See also:letter to the Peshwa, the See also:Marquess See also:Wellesley thus describes him: " The able minister of your See also:state, whose upright principles and See also:honourable views and whose zeal for the welfare and prosperity both of the dominions of his own immediate superiors and of other See also:powers were so justly celebrated." See See also:Captain A. See also:Macdonald, Memoir of Nana Furnuwees (Bombay, 1851).

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