Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s4.1

v1.c8.s4.1

Alivardi, on learning that Bālāji had arrived 20 miles from Murshidabad, sent his jamadār Ghulām Mustafa with the Peshwā's envoys, Gangādhar Rāo and Amrit Rāo, to Pilāji Jādav, the commander of the Marātha vanguard. Pilāji came to the Nawāb with these men, exchanged mutual oaths of fidelity and assurance of friendship, and then returned to his chief. The Nawāb, advancing further, encamped at Lawdā (7 miles south of Berhampur Cantonment), from which village Bālāji's camp was only six miles distant.