Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s17.15

v2.c27.s17.15

The news of this disaster reached the Bhāu about 21st December and filled him with consternation. At the same time, a second plan of raid and diversion that he had ordered further south, in the lower Doab, also miscarried. Simultaneously with Govind Ballāl's march from Etāwā into the upper Doab, Gopāl Ganesh Barvé (of Fathpur-Haswa) and Krishnānand (of Karra) had set out with their small contingents to raid Oudh territory. Crossing the Ganges at Dalmau and Manikpur respectively, early in December, they sacked two villages, Phulpurā and Nawābganj. But the Oudh troops soon came up and attacked the raiders. As the battle began, Balbhadra (the Rajah of Tiloi) and other rebel zamindars—who were the sole hope of Barvé, took to flight. The small Maratha force, unable to contend alone, broke and scattered each as he found a path open. Barvé himself escaped with only half a dozen followers by way of Vindhya-bāsini to Karra Jahanabad.*