Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c40.s2.3

v3.c40.s2.3

Next year Rāo Pratāp Singh was called upon to meet an invasion of his eastern frontier by Najaf Khan, who was bent on recovering the places in Mewāt lately usurped by the Narukā. His relations with Najaf, alternating between war submission and war again throughout the year 1778, have been described in Ch. 30 § 1-2. In 1779 the Mir Bakhshi, with a Jaipur army assisting him, pressed the Rāo Rājah so hard as to compel him to pay a visit of submission and to promise tribute. After Najaf Khan’s withdrawal to Delhi in November 1779, the Narukā chief secured the patronage of Najaf’s local agent, Muhammad Beg Hamadāni, and made him his intercessor with the imperial Government.