Later Mughals v2.c14.s31.1

v2.c14.s31.1

Pilaji, acting on behalf of Trimbak Rao Dhabariya, the senapati to whom the chauth on the lands east of the Mahi river had been assigned, exerted himself to collect the money. But Baji Rao the Peshwa to harm his sworn rival sent his own officer Udaji Puar to interfere in the collections. Both sides met at Baroda and the quarrel ended in a fight. Abdun-nabi Beg, deputy faujdar of Dabhoi, having been much harassed by Pilaji about the payment of chauth, took the side of Udaji and gave him shelter in Dabhoi. In the subsequent fighting Abdun-nabi Khan was killed, and the town and fort thus fell into Udaji's sole possession.