History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.131.3

v2.c41.131.3

On the next day another letter was issued to Nawāb Mīr Ja'afar 'Alī Khān to send 1,000 of his horse to Birbhum in order to co-operate with the English troops in Medinipur and Burdwan to act against the Marathas who were massed on the frontier.¹ On December 18th another letter was addressed to Bhavānī Pandit cautioning him against the trespass of his troops into British territory.² A letter received from Bhavānī on the 27th of the same month contained an assurance to the effect that he had come to these parts to chastise rebellious zamindars and not to make war upon the English. Bhavānī Pandit had heard that the Muṭaṣaddis of the Nawāb had come to an agreement regarding chauth with the Maratha envoy Raghunāth Pandit. Another letter received two days later repeated the assurance.³ A long letter received on the 23rd of December discloses the fact that the Nawāb Mīr Ja'afar'Alī and his Dīwān Rāja Durlabhrām promised to pay the chauth by bills to Jānujī and in addition to pay a certain amount to Bhavānī Pandit for his own expenses. In this letter the latter castigates the Christians severely for their breaches of promise. Similar castigations are to be found in many of the letters of Jānujī written in later times.⁴ Mīr Ja'afar'Alī went to render an account of his misdeeds to his creator in February, 1765, and the correspondence grows less interesting and voluminous.