Preface; Preliminary observations. Respecting the geography, chief features, climate, people, religion, learning, early history, and institutions of the Mahratta country; 1. From AD 1000, to AD 1478. Conquest of the Deccan by the Mahomedans; 2. From AD 1478, to AD 1637. Five independent states arise from the dismembered monarchy, which afterwards form the three kingdoms of Ahmednugur, Beejapoor, and Golcandah; 3. From AD 1637, to AD 1648. Shahjee's progress after entering the service of Beejapoor; 4. From AD 1648, to AD 1657. Local authorities under the Beejapoor government, in the immediate neighbourhood of Sivajee; 5. From AD 1657, to AD 1662. Sivajee enters into a correspondence with Aurungzebe; 6. From 1662, to AD 1667. Savajee attacks the Moghul possessions; 7. From AD 1667, to AD 1669. Sultan Mauzum and Jeswunt Sing; 8. From AD 1670, to AD 1676. The tranquility of the Deccan is interrupted; 9. From AD 1676, to AD 1680. State of politics in the Deccan when Sivajee undertakes his expedition into the Carnatic; 10. From AD 1680, to AD 1689. Cruelties exercised by Sumbhajee on assuming power; 11. From AD 1689, to AD 1707. Raja Ram; 12. From AD 1707, to AD 1720. Shao; 14. From AD 1720, to AD 1726. Nizam Ool Moolk, throwing off his dependance on the Syuds, determines on possessing himself of the resources of the Deccan; 15. From AD 1727, to AD 1734. Plans of Nizam Ool Moolk for consolidating his own power, and of creating dissensions among the Mahrattas; 15. From AD 1734, to AD 1739. Mahratta affairs; 16. From AD 1739, to AD 1740. The government of Malwa not formally conceded to Bajee Rao as promised by Mizam Ool Moolk.