vakil-mutlak

Updated: August 21, 2026

This is of importance, as serving to show the position to which the Court of Directors was supposed to have succeeded; namely to that of Vakil-mutlak or Plenipotentiary Vicegerent of the Empire, in the room of the Mahratta Peshwa and his once all-powerful Deputy.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan