Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s4.3
Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s4.3
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v2.c28.s4.3
During this first Sikh invasion of the Doab, Najib, who had just before slain Suraj Mal and routed the Jat army by accident and was expecting a vendetta with his son Jawahir and the entire Jat nation any moment, found it politic to buy off these new enemies at the opposite corner of his territory by paying them eleven lakhs of Rupees. [SPD. xxix. 55.] But, with Sarhind as a secure base, the Sikhs could henceforth most easily cross over at Buriā ghat or Rāmrā ghat to the upper Doab, or marching southwards raid Hariana and the country round Delhi, or even penetrate to Rajputana through the friendly Jat kingdom.