Umabai Dabhade

The members of her family held the hereditary title senapati (commander-in-chief), and controlled several territories in Gujarat.

The Dabhades had the rights to collect taxes (chauth and sardeshmukhi) from Gujarat province and it was an important source of revenue for them.

As a result, Peshwa Balaji decided to subdue the Dabhades and force them to remit money to the Chhattrapati's treasury.

Umabai unsuccessfully petitioned to the Peshwa, requesting him to release the Dabhades from the covenant that required them to share revenues with the Chhattrapati.

On 20 October 1750, Umabai asked her agent Yado Mahadev Nirgude to make a final appeal to the Peshwa, to release the Dabhades from the revenue-sharing covenant.

Peshwa Balaji rejected the appeal and declared that he wanted the Dabhades to remit money to the Chhatrapati's treasury immediately.

[4] When Balaji Baji Rao left for the Mughal frontier, Tarabai imprisoned Chhatrapati Rajaram II on 24 November 1750.

After initial successes against the Peshwa loyalists in March 1751, Gaekwad was trapped in a gorge in the Krishna River valley.

[3] In March 1752, Gaekwad agreed to abandon Dabhades in favour of the Peshwa, who made him the Maratha chief of Gujarat.