ABSTRACT
Mahadaji Sindhia answered Colonel John Collins' peremptoriness with studied negligence; the Resident must wait until he and the Bhonsla Raja had talked matters over, and then he would be informed if it was peace or war. On 27 June, the Governor-General, pained by Sindhia's 'insolent and hostile declaration to Colonel Collins' and the 'recent proofs of determined hostility and arrogant ambition' that he had noticed in him and the Bhonsla Raja, instructed Major-General Wellesley. At Aurangabad, Arthur Wellesley was received by King Collins in the regal fashion which he had used for so long that it was now the normal manner of his life, taken unthinkingly for granted. Colonel Murray, under Wellesley's general direction, overran Gujarat, where Sindhia had only scattered posts. Lord Wellesley listed the aims of the campaign as in number: to seize all Sindhia's lands between the Ganges and Jumna, to obtain the person of the Emperor, and to extend the Company's territory by occupying Bundelkhand.
