Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c38.s8.22

v3.c38.s8.22

Meantime, a Sikh invasion in unusually large numbers had burst into the upper Doab.* “Owing to the famine, many petty Sikh sardars of the region round Pātiāla, numbering 30 to 35 thousand horse and foot, with their wives and children, crosssed the Jamuna at Buriyā ghāt and entered the Doab for filling their stomachs. They looted the villages round Saharanpur and other cities and penetrated to Deoband.