The ensuing 40 years saw a period of peace, or rather a period in which the British avoided hostilities with their neighbours, be it the - still powerful - Marathas or then the Sidis. They used this period to consolidate the administration of Bombay and presented a far more united front by deliberately abandoning internal quarrels (Banaji, 1932, p. 59). Anglo-Sidi interactions took the form of an alliance in the eighteenth century and, in the following century, it was the British who intervened in one of the most prolonged and strongly contested succession disputes, overriding the claim of the Sidi sardars to elect  
the next nawab of Janjira. They acknowledged the hereditary rule of the nawabs which had been put in place in 1803 and approved the accession of Sidi Ahmed Khan, who ruled from 1879 to 1922 (Jasdanwalla, 2011, pp. 51-54).