Tarikh-i Hindi 6: Tenth Year of the Reign.
Tarikh-i Hindi, of Rustam 'Ali (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 6
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Muhammad Khan Bangash Ghazanfar Jang, with an army of eighty thousand horse and more than a hundred elephants, proceeded to the province of Allahabad, to fight against Raja Chatrsal. After great exertions and many actions, the fort of Jitgarh, where he resided, was taken. Chatrsal fled for refuge to the Zamindars of Jharna and Purna, and the whole territory came into the possession of the Khan.
Burhanu-l Mulk led an army against the fort of Chachandi, near Shahabad Kanauj, the chief of which was Hindu Singh, a Chandela Rajput. He was, however, not to be subdued; but Raja Gopal Singh Bhadauria, who accompanied Burhanu-l Mulk, under the pretence of making peace, went to Hindu Singh and told him that it was not expedient to quarrel with the Emperor's nobles, that he should leave the fort for three days, and he called God to witness that, after three days, when peace would be concluded the possession of the fort should be restored to him. Hindu Singh was deceived, and left the fort, and with his family and property pitched his tents at some distance. The third day, by the order of Burhánu-l Mulk, Rája Gopál Singh, breaking his word, took the fort and zamíndárí into his own possession. Consequently Hindu Singh, having no remedy, prepared to fight with the army of Burhánu-l Mulk, which amounted to about sixty thousand horse, but, baffled in his attempt, retreated towards the territory of Chatrsál. As a punishment for violating his promise, Rája Gopál Singh soon hastened towards his own destruction. After his death, his son, Anrat Singh, was confirmed in possession of that district.