Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c44.s2.16

v4.c44.s2.16

This open breach between the two highest servants of the Peshwā’s Government in Hindustan utterly undid Sindhia’s great work in crushing Ghulām Qādir and neutralising Ismail Beg, and made the restored Maratha empire of the North totter for a fall. The following chapters will show how such a calamity was averted only by Mahādji’s cool and far-sighted diplomacy and the valour of his New Model army (in 1790). This assertion of his indisputable supremacy was effected only on the field of Lakheri, in June 1793.