Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c36.s8.17

v3.c36.s8.17

The Emperor yielded and issued from Delhi palace on 10th November 1778. Najafgarh was reached on 17th December and then Rewari (where its Rajah Mitrasen Ahir interviewed and was saddled with a tribute of Rs. 1,25,000). On the 23rd the camp arrived at Kanud, 28 miles west of Rewari, when the local Rajah Bhagwant Singh was received in audience and a tribute of four lakhs was laid on him. Next day the camp was pitched beyond Narnaul (15 miles south of Kanud), to which Badil Beg was posted as imperial faujdar. In Rajputana proper, several local chiefs were received at Court,—Nawal Singh Shekhawat the Rajah of Nawalgarh on 31st Dec., Basant Singh the Rajah of Patan on 5th January 1779, and Nathu Singh the Rajah of Manoharpur (35 miles south of Patan) on 16th January. The furthest point reached was the village of Aminpur, in parganah Amirnagar, near Jaipur, on 17th January. Here the Kachhwa diwan Khushhālī Rām Bohrā came (19th) to arrange for his master’s presentation to the throne. But Mīrzā Najaf himself arrived in the camp (23rd) with a strong and well-equipped army, and after some argument with his rival it was settled that these two ministers should jointly fix the Jaipur tribute.