Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s3.31

v1.c8.s3.31

In 1743, at Bhāskar’s call, Raghuji Bhonslé himself marched with a large army by way of Rāmgarh towards Katwā (where he arrived at the beginning of March), bent upon exacting the *chauth* of these three provinces which had been promised to Shāhu by the Mughal Emperor and assigned by that Rājah to Raghuji. To counteract it, the Emperor had appealed to the Peshwā Bālāji Rāo, who was the rival and personal enemy of Raghuji, and the Peshwā had agreed (as early as November 1742) to lead an army into Bengal for the purpose of opposing Raghuji.