Chatrapati Shahu, who had a secular outlook in order to broaden the base of his Peshwa administration (avoiding capture of all posts by any particular community), arranged Radhikabai's marriage to Vishwasrao, eldest son of Nanasaheb Peshwa, as one of the preconditions for making the Peshwa post hereditary.
Her efforts were to be deterred by the invasion Nanasaheb Peshwa and his Maratha brigands who pillaged Malwa and all the territories that Yar Mohammad Khan had recaptured from them.
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Mamola Bai actively sought restraint and organized a peace treaty between Faiz Mohammad Khan and Nanasaheb Peshwa in which half of the territories of the Nawab of Bhopal were unfairly annexed by the Marathas.
His grandfather Mahashankar Thakur was had fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 for Nanasaheb Peshwa.