Balaji Pant Natu was a spy working for the British against the Peshwa Bajirao II during the era of Maratha Confederacy in the Third Anglo-Maratha War. He belonged to the Chitpavan Brahmin community of Maharashtra and came from the powerful Natu family of Pune. When the British forces entered Shanivar Wada on November 17, 1817, Natu unfurled the Union Jack over the building. Before he became an agent for the British governor of Bombay, Montstuart Elphinstone, he served the Raste family.