1775 - The Treaty of Surat was signed on 7th March in 1775. Under the treaty Raghunath Rao, one of the claimants to the throne of the Peshwa, agreed to cede Salsette and Bassein Fort to the British in consideration of being himself restored to Poona.
Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal, disapproved of the Bombay Government’s action and annulled the Treaty of Surat and sent his own agent to negotiate a very different new pact, the Treaty of Purandhar (1776).
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