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was also on his way with a strong force- Kao Badan Singh Jat would 
soon be at Akbarabad. All these would aid in the protection of the city. 
Nasrat Yar Khan and Rae Shiu Das, the naibs of the Nazim (Rajah Jai 
Singh Sawae), would also assist. The great object was to defend the subah, 
to tranquillize the city, and to preserve the name and fame of Hindustan. 
Mubariz-ul-Mulk would soon arrive at Gwaliar, and the Bhadauriya Rajah, 
if freed from anxiety about his home, would also join. 
Rajah Jai Singh Sawae also opened communications with Muhammad 
Khan, and tried to induce him to quit his retirement. At first Muhammad 
Khan’s only reply was to taunt Jai Singh, pointing out that he held one- 
third of Malwa, one-fourth of the Delhi subah and the whole of the Akbara¬ 
bad Nizamat, besides his native country, which produced an income equal 
to that of a Subah. The Mahrattas in the Jaipur territory pretend to be 
one in aim and object with the Rajputs and Bundelas. This is only deceit 
(filosofi), who knows where they will stop, not only have they reached 
Hindustan but they are spread abroad in Bangala. The Rajah might be 
quite sure that, whenever they had made safe their position elsewhere, they 
would throw him over, and demand the very places which they then profes¬ 
sed to protect. 
By the offer of jdgirs and money payments, Rajah Jai Singh succeed¬ 
ed in overcoming Muhammad Khan’s reluctance to serve again. Before 
he appeared in the field, however, the Mahrattas, having crossed the Jarnna 
at the ferries opposite Auruyah and Sarae Ajit Mall in the Etawah district, 
had plundered Khanpur, Derapur, Mangalpur, Sikandrah and Shiuganpur.* * * § 
Their collectors had recovered khandi from the zamindars and faujdars 
of the Duab. Other parties were scattered in the country of Gwaliar, 
Bijipurf had been surrounded and the inhabitants of AntriJ had taken 
refuge in Gwaliar. The latter were suspected of being in league with the 
invaders. The zamindars of Raojha (?) had been defeated. 
On the 7th Ramzan, 1148 H (10th Jan. 1736), the Nawab’s troops 
began to cross the Jamna. Muhammad Khan had fixed the 14th Shawwal 
for his own advance, but as the Mahrattas were reported to have gone off 
towards Delhi, the inhabitants of Akbarabad and Rae Shiu Das, naib, be¬ 
came frightened. The army of the invaders in Bhadawar might see their 
opportunity, and crossing the river might invest the city. 
Reports now came in that one force of Mahrattas had advanced beyond 
Nurabad§ in the direction of Akbarabad, and that another party was near 
* The first is, I suppose, our Cawnpore, the other places are in the Cawnpur dis¬ 
trict. There is, however, a kasbah Khanpur just south of Auruyah. 
f Lat. 26°, 2'. Long. 77°, 28', fifty-two miles S. W. of Gwaliar. 
% Twelve miles S. of Gwaliar. 
§ Fourteen miles N. W. of Gwaliar. 
