1. When Balaji Bajirao was the Peshwa, Emperor Shahu died (1749).
2. He summoned all the contending factions and forced them to accept the conditions he laid down.
3. He decided that the capital of the kingdom would henceforward be Pune, not Satara.
4. All power and authority was now concentrated in the Peshwas’s office.
5. The Maratha peasant warrior band was reconfigured and its run came to an end.
6. Maratha soldiers were not permitted now to retire from battle fields each year for the purpose of cultivating their land.
7. Soldiers were required to live in forts and towns far away from their home.
8. They were trained as infantrymen as well as horsemen.
9. The large guns were nominally under the command of Maratha officers.
10. During the period of the Peshwa Balaji Bajirao, the northern frontiers of the Maratha state were rapidly touching Rajasthan, Delhi and the Punjab.
11. The Marathas launched raids from Nagpur against Bihar, Bengal and Odisha. Notwithstanding the conflict between the Marathas and the Nizam over Karnataka, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu regions were effectively brought under the control of the Marathas.
