Later Mughals v2.c13.s6.30

v2.c13.s6.30

Dilawar Ali Khan's force, although not a very large one, consisted of thoroughly tried and well-equipped men. As he was the Bakhshi, or paymaster, he knew the quality of all the Sayyid's troops; and when he was sent on this enterprise, he had selected six thousand of the best armed and best mounted horsemen out of seventeen or eighteen thousand who were present with the Sayyid. They were mostly Barha Sayyids, Hindustanis, and Afghans. Two of the chief men placed under him were Babar Khan and Sayyid Shamsher Khan,* cousin of the two Sayyids. There were also the mail-clad Rajputs of Maharao Bhim Singh, of Bundi, and Rajah Gaj Singh, son of Anup Singh, of Narwar. The latter chief brought between two and three thousand men. Dost Muhammad Khan Rohela (afterwards of Bhopal),† also joined with three thousand five hundred men. The total force could not have been less than thirteen thousand, and may have amounted to eighteen thousand men. [K. K. 877.]