He died in 1709 and was succeeded by his son Kanhoji who as soon displaced by his cousin Raghuji, a grandson of Mudhojis second son Bapuji. Raghuji was the first and most distinguished of the Bhonsla rules of Nagpur. He had plundered the country from Berar up to the gates of Allahabad. In 1740 he made a raid on the Carnatic, and immediately afterwards commenced a series of expeditions to Bengal, which terminated after a contest of ten years in the acquisition to the Marathas of Cuttack and the promise of twelve lakhs annually from ali Vardi Khan as the Cauth of Bengal. In the meantime Raghuji established himself in Nagpur, where he reigned nominally as the representative of the Gond prince from 1743 to 1755. By had affected the conquest of the Deogarh territories, chanda and Chhattisgarh. Ratanpur, the capital of the Haihayavansi kingdom, capiulated without a blow in 1741 on the advance of the Maratha General, Bhaskar Pant, and four years afterwards, with the deposition of the last Raja, a Rajput dynast whose annals carried it back to the commencement of the Christan era, ignominiously ended. The fort of chanda was delivered up to Raghuji by the treachery of a Diwan in 1749 and two years later was finally ceded to him. Raghuji died in 1755. The countries under his dominion or paying him tribute may be generally described as extending east and west from the Bay of Bengal to the Ajanta hills and north and south from the Nerbudda to the Godavari. His arm was principally composed of horse. His standing force was about 15,000, but was liable to be augmented every year according to the exigencies of the moment. Bold and decisive in action Raghuji was the perfect type of a Maratha leader. He saw in the troubles of others only an opening for plunde and invasion. The reign of Raghuji I Is chiefly important in the history of Nagpur because with him came that great influx of the Kunbis and cognate Maratha tribes which haltered the whole face of the country and the administration of the land, as well as the language of the people.