Raghuji retired to Berar, having concluded a treaty with them by which he received eleven lakhs of rupees and several Districts on the Wainganga as the price of his assistance, and was appointed the organ of all communications between the Gonds and the Government of Satara.     This was the first direct connection of the Bhonsla family with Nagpur, although part of Gondwana had been conquered by Kanhoji Bhonsla as early as 1716. But the country was by destined to remain long without Raghujis interference. Dissensions between the brothers ripened into civil war. In the years 1742, on one occasion, 12,000 gonds are said to have been massacred in the fort of Patansaongi. In the following year (1743) Raghuji was called in to support the elder brother Burhan Shah. Akbar shah was driven into exile and finally poisoned at Hyderabad. Raghuji had not the heart to give back to the weaker Gond a second time the country he held within his grasp. He constituted himself Protector, took all real power into his own hands and making Nagpur his capital, and quickly reduced all Deogarh to his own authority. But still he studiously preserved the show of Burhan Shah’s dignity; whilst in reality he reduce him to the condition of dependent, having a fixed share of the revenue, and the empty title of Raja. Burha Shah’s descendants have continued to occupy the position of state pensioners to the present time, and the representative of the family resides at Nagpur with the title of Raja being called Sansthanik.      The founder of the Bhonsla family was Mudhoji patel of Deor, in the Satara District, from which place the present representative of the family derives his title of Raja. The correct spelling of the family name is Bhosle and it is derived from Bhosa, a village near Bombay. Mudhoji is said to have been a Silladar or leader of horse under the great Sivaji, and of his 3 sons Bapuji, Parsoji and Sabaji-Parsoji rendered distinguished military service in the early Maratha wars, and as a reward was entrusted with the right to collect Chauth in Bera.