Janoji died in 1772, and his brothers fought for succession, until Madhoji shot the other in the Battle of Panchgaon, six miles south of Nagpur, and succeeded to the regency on behalf of Raghuji.

Masons and carpenters employed for building the new Bhonsle Palace were rewarded with golden bracelets worth Rs.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke describes another garden of Raghuji himself: "It is small but pretty; and the numerous buildings and splendid decoration are elegant.

A number of gardens are mentioned in the correspondence: Phutale lake, Sonegaon, Gulab (rose), Shivni, Induli, Hansaputi, Moti, and also personal gardens of Ramaji Tatya, Khushalpure, Umaji Mahadev, Manajirao Appasaheb Ghatge, Gujajiraje Babasaheb Gujar.

Raghuji amused himself by witnessing animal fights, firing rockets, shooting arrows, fishing, playing sticks (bothati), or game of chance, horse riding, and boating.

Venkat Narsi from Karnataka, Firoz, Lallan and Rami from Pune and one from Ujjain came and performed their dances.

Blunt, while travelling in 1795, entered the dominion of the Bhonsles and wrote, "The change of the scene was truly gratifying: and the Maratha government being well established and the country highly cultivated, we met with civil treatment and abundance of every species of grain."

[2] In 1803 Raghuji united with Daulat Rao Sindhia of Gwalior against the British East India Company in the Second Anglo-Maratha War.

The first four of the Bhonsales were military chiefs with the habits of rough soldiers, connected by blood and by constant familiar interaction with all their principal officers.

Up to 1792 their territories were seldom the theater of hostilities, and the area of cultivation and revenue continued to increase under a fairly equitable and extremely simple system of government.

The pay of the troops was in arrears, and they maintained themselves by plundering the cultivators, while at the same time commenced the raids of the Pindaris, who became so bold that in 1811 they advanced to Nagpur and burnt the suburbs.

It was at this time that most of the numerous village forts were built, to which on the approach of these marauders the peasant retired and fought for bare life, all he possessed outside the walls being already lost to him.