Balaji Pant Natu was a spy working for the British against the Peshwa Bajirao II during the era of Maratha Confederacy in the Third Anglo-Maratha War.
[2] When the British forces entered Shanivar Wada on November 18, 1817, Natu unfurled the Union Jack over the building.
[3] Before he became an agent for the British governor of Bombay, Montstuart Elphinstone, he served the Raste family.
[4] Along with the installation of Pratapsinh Bhonsale as the symbolic Chatrapati by the British, Balaji Pant Natu was selected to be his assistant.
However, there was always hostility between Chitpavan Natu and the Maratha raja due to tensions based on caste lines.