Riyaz al-salatin 114.2.7

114.2.7

Jagat Set Mahtab Rai, Rajah Sarup Chand (Jagat Set's brother), the Zamindars of Dinajpur, Nadiah, Kharakpur, Birbhum, and Rajshahi, &c., and Dulal Rai, Diwan of Bhojpur, Fatih Singh, the Rajah of Tikari, son of Rajah Sundar, and Ramnarain, Deputy Governor of the Subah of Azimabad, Muhammad Masum, and Munshi Jagat Rai and others, the Nawab threw them into prison. And after strengthening the Fort of Monghyr, the Nawab sent a large army to Bengal. In the vicinity of Rajmahal, on the banks of the river Adhuah, he reviewed his army, and sent despatches to the Faujdars and the Deputy Nazim of Bengal, directing and instructing them peremptorily to fight with the English. Amongst them, Shaikh Hidayatullah, Deputy Faujdar of Nadiah, with a large army, Jafar Khan, and Alam Khan, Commandant of the Turkish bodyguard of the Nawab, swiftly advanced to Katwah to fight. From the other side, the English army proclaiming Nawab Jafar Ali Khan as Subadar of Bengal, and taking him in their company advanced to fight, and at a distance of two karoh entrenched itself at Dainhat. On the 3rd of the month of Muharram, both the armies arraying themselves for battle kindled the fire of warfare. The army of Qasim Ali Khan, after the fall of a number of men whose moment for death had arrived, being defeated, fled to Palasi (Plassey) to Muhammad Taqi Khan, Faujdar of Birbhum. After two or three days, when the army of Bengal had collected together, the English Generals arrived pursuing them.