Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s12.49

v2.c28.s12.49

The Jat prince of Gohad now joined Jawahir, and the two concerted a plan of campaign against Malhar, and began to raid the Maratha possessions in north Malwa. On hearing of this disaster, Malhar sent Mahadji Sindhia and Gangadhar diwan ahead, as he himself was a dying man. Jawahir would have attacked and probably defeated Malhar beyond the Chambal if his Sikh horsemen had not absolutely refused to follow him on account of the intolerable heat which they suffered in a grassless and totally waterless plain. In this way Nahar Singh lost his own estate, and was afterwards cast off by the Marathas as a tool no longer needed. He took refuge in Jaipur and finally at Shāhpurā, where in despair he swallowed poison, *c.* 6 December 1766. This was the sad end of Suraj Mal’s Benjamin, as the Jesuit father aptly calls him.