Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c40.s3.3

v3.c40.s3.3

This expedition had a curious after-effect on the internal politics of Jaipur. Three Baniās of Khandelā in the Kachhwa State, named Daulat Rām, Khush-hālī Rām II, and Nand Ram, with their father Chhajju Rām, of the Haldiā family had migrated from the Jaipur Court and gone to Mācheri, where they had risen to the head of the administration and the charge of important forts. But by reason of their having spitefully counselled their new master not pay his debt to the Jaipur State and thus provoked the recent joint invasion, he in his hour of defeat threatened to imprison and plunder them. So the entire Haldiā family took shelter in Najaf’s camp (c. January 1779). Here Khush-hāli Rām Bohra took them under his protection, appointed Daulat Rām as his deputy at his master’s Court during his frequent absences on diplomatic missions, and posted his namesake, Khush-hāli Rām the Haldiā, as his agent in Najaf’s camp (c. March 1779).