Later Mughals v2.c15.s9: Sec. 78.—Final Withdrawal of Muhammad Khan from Bundelkhand, 1729.
Later Mughals v2.c15.s9
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Sec. 78.—Final Withdrawal of Muhammad Khan from Bundelkhand, 1729.
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In the interval Jaitpur had continued to be strictly invested and the sufferings of the garrison were intense. Then an epidemic broke out in the Mahratta camp and thousands of their men died. Moreover the time for their annual return to their homes during the rainy season had arrived. Alarmed at the losses by disease and anxious to get home, the Mahrattas raised the siege and marched for the Dakhin. Chhattarsal undaunted continued the siege with the twenty thousand men still with him. A further period elapsed and besiegers as well as besieged were tired out. Qaim Khan, too, had crossed the Jamuna and was hastening to his father's deliverance. Chhattarsal and his family decided that it was more prudent to come to terms, and Muhammad Khan was allowed to evacuate Jaitpur (August 1729) on signing a written agreement not to attack them again, but to content himself with the tribute they had formerly paid. On meeting his father Qaim Khan proposed that they should renew the struggle, but Muhammad Khan refused to break his pledged word. They recrossed the Jamuna at Kalpi on the 3rd Oct. 1729, and from that time Muhammad Khan never re-entered Bundelkhand. In 1144 (July 1731—June 1732) he was superseded in the Government of Allahabad by Sarbuland Khan. [Warid 11-13.]
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∗ About 10 m. n. of Budaon.
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As a reward for their alliance the Mahrattas received from Chhattarsal one-third of his territories, the parganas so ceded were situated in the south and west of the region and were supposed to yield a revenue of 30,76,953 Rupees or about £300,000 a year.* They seem to have soon had some difficulties with their Bundela neighbours in the parent State of Orchha for in Zul Qada 1144 H. (April-May 1732) Pirbhuji a brother of Malhar Holkar was killed in a fight with Rajah Udwat Singh of that place.
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Rajah Chhattarsal died at Panna on the 14th Dec. 1731, at the age of eighty-two years. He left a number of sons: but the two eldest Harde Sah and Jagat Raj divided the State between them, the former becoming Rajah of Panna and dying soon after in 1151 H. (April 1738—April 1739); and the latter Rajah of Jaitpur (died 1758).
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The younger sons, in the usual Rajput manner, obtained small appanages for their support. The supposed revenue of the Panna State was 38,46,123 and of Jaitpur 30,76,953 Rupees. [Pogson 105-115.]