Ahirwada
"Inactivity and lack of a vigorous policy weakened the Maratha power inMalwa".Two incidents seem to show that by the year 1764 dieposition of the Marathas in Northern India had somewhat improved. Ahmed Shah Abdali ratified a formal peace withthem in that year.' This was a much-needed relief, and at thesame time it was an indirect recognition of their still surviving power. The second incident is more interesting. We read in dieEast India Company's general letter to Madras, dated May 13,1768, "When our servants after the Battle of Buxur planned theextirpation of Shuja from his dominions and the giving thesame up to the King," Lord Clive soon discerned the Kingwould have been unable to maintain them and that it wouldhave destroyed the strongest barrier against the Marathas and1 S.P.D., xix, 12, 22, 37, 43; xxxix, 3. Rajwade, I, 296.2 When he left Poona for Malwa in 1764, measures were taken tointercept his journey.