text:  In the war with the English which followed he conciliated the esteem of the cabinet of Calcutta by his generosity to the troops who submitted at the disgraceful convention of Worgaom in January 1779: and at the peace of Salbye in 1782 his independence was expressly recognised by the British government with which he treated as mediator and plenipotentiary for the Peshwah and the whole Mahratta nation