Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c38.s10.13

v3.c38.s10.13

Then, at last, Muhammad Beg offered the complete submission on which the exasperated Sindhia was insisting. On 10th November, he rode out with a small band of horsemen to Ambaji Ingle’s camp and surrendered. All the guns (forty-six in number) and other property found in his camp were attached and removed to the Maratha lines. His vanquished battalions were deprived of their flintlocks. His Ruhela mercenaries, after detention for two days, were sent away under a strong guard to beyond Dig, and there released, with orders not to go towards Agra. In the Maratha camp, Muhammad Beg and his officers were at first guarded as prisoners; but finally he was set free on conditions that made him powerless for mischief, namely, (1) to surrender all his arms and military equipment, (2) to send his family to Ujjain to be held in Sindhia’s capital as hostages for his fidelity, and (3) to serve in future as a servant of Sindhia. His fiefs were taken away.