The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.234

v4.c20.234

Muhammad Khān Bangash, who was at Delhi explaining his defeat in Bundelkhand, was appointed to Mālwā, and reached Sārangpur on 26 January, 1731. The state of the province was appalling. It was out of cultivation and most of the inhabitants left were in league with marauding parties of Marāthās, who numbered by the end of 1731 nearly 100,000. Against such forces Muhammad Khān could do nothing. His appeals for help and a prayer that the emperor should take the field in person merely drew a letter of reproaches from the minister, Khān Daurān, who accused the governor of apathy and his troops of treachery. Landholders in the province were informed that they need pay no heed to Muhammad Khān as a new governor was about to be appointed, and on 25 October, 1732, the governor was recalled to Āgra and Jay Singh of Amber was appointed to succeed him.