text:  The ceremony of adopting a posthumous heir which had taken place at the death of Dowlut Rao was now repeated; and a boy nine years old the nearest kinsman of the deceased sovereign was placed on the musnud under the name of Jeeahjee Rao Sindiah by the _Maha-rane Baee_ or queen-dowager; who though herself only twelve years of age assumed the regency in conjunction with the Mama-Sahib