Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c8.s6.9

v1.c8.s6.9

After passing a month in cantonments, Raghuji went to S. Bihār for five weeks (August- September.) In response to repeated appeals from the remnant of Mustafa’s army, which was blockaded by the loyal zamindārs at Magror, and its promise to join his banners, he had marched into Bihār. By way of the jungles of north Birbhum and the Khargpur hills (south of Mungir), he arrived near Fatuā which he pillaged and burnt, and then turned south-west, plundering Shaikhpurā and many villages in the Tikāri zamindāri, till he struck the Son river.