Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c11.s1.12

v1.c11.s1.12

Girdhar Bahādur, who was *subahdār* of Mālwa from September 1722 to November 1728 (except for the two years, 1723—1725, when he had to make room for the Nizām’s nominee), was defeated and killed by Chimnāji, the younger brother of the Peshwā Bāji Rāo, near the fort of Māndu on 29th November 1728. His cousin Dayā Bahādur, who then took up the command of his forces, met with the same fate at the hands of the same general, close to the same place (Amjhera) about the 14th December following.[*] Girdhar Bahādur’s son Bhavānirām was next appointed by the Emperor as acting *subahdār* of Mālwa, and for two years (1729-30) battled manfully against increasing difficulties to hold his own. In January 1731, Muhammad Khān Bangash reached Ujjain as the new viceroy, but he could effect nothing with his own resources which the Emperor did not supplement. His stay in his new charge was short and he failed in his struggle with the Marāthas here as completely as he had failed in Bundelkhand in 1729. Next year he was replaced as governor by Sawāi Jai Singh,* who started from his capital on