THE CLIMAX OF MARATHA DOMINION

193 ward a large army, supported by the federal contin- gents of Holkar and Sind. Raghunath Kao seized Delhi, expelled Najib-ad-daulah; then marched swiftly with his light troops onward to Lahore, drove out the governor left there by Ahmad Shah, and substituted a Maratha administration in the Panjab. A MOHAMMEDAN TOMB AT LAHORE. This achievement marks, as Grant Duff observes in his " History of the Marathas," the apogee of Ma- ratha pre-eminence; " the Deccan horses had quenched their thirst in the waters of the Indus "; but it also marks the turning-point and ebb of their fortunes. By such a bold stroke for the possession of Northern India, they overreached themselves, for the effort drew them very far from their base; the Mohammedans were numerous and hardy in the north, and the Marathas