A History of the Mahrattas v1.c25.91

v1.c25.91

and since writing the above I have been confirmed in my belief of its correctness, by observing that General Walker, formerly resident at Baroda, repeatedly mentions in his reports to the Bombay government that Ahmedabad was taken by Rugonath Rao and Dummajee in 1755. [The O.H.I. (p. 352) states that the Marāthās occupied Ahmadābād in 1758; but according to the I.G. Bom., 1909, i. 256, the combined armies of Damājī and Raghunāth Rāo gained possession of the city in 1753; the Marāthās lost it to Momin Khān II in 1755–6, and eventually retook it finally in 1757. The Bombay Gazetteer (1896), vol. i, pt. i, pp. 340–2, states that Momin Khān surrendered the town on February 27, 1758, which appears to be the correct date of the final capture by the Marāthās.]