Balaji Pant Natu was a British spy working against the Marathas in the Third Anglo-Maratha War. He belonged to the Chitpavan Brahmin community of Maharashtra coming from the powerful Natu family in 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 for the Raste family.