A History of the Mahrattas v1.c29.33
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c29.33
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¹ He was accidentally hit by one of his own men before he received his death-wound from a party of Mahrattas under Dummajee Gaekwar. Moraud Khan, his rival, is accused of having hired the man who wounded him, but this accusation seems more than questionable. A party of Afghans, in Holkar's service, with their usual ferocity, cut off the Dewan's head, which they carried in triumph on the point of a spear.