Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c44.s2.19

v4.c44.s2.19

At last in Aug. 1791, Ali Bahādur was sent away by Sindhia who paid him some money and set him to carve out a principality for himself in Bundelkhand, where the old Maratha claims had been long disregarded. So, crossing the Chambal on 1st September 1791, Ali Bahādur marched into Danghāi, carrying Himmat Bahādur with himself The Gossain raised fresh troops for him and in the end Ali Bahādur established himself as the Nawāb of Bandā, and gave Himmat Bahādur a jāgir there. Ali Bahādur died on 28th August 1802; his son Shamsher Bahādur fought the English in the Anglo-Maratha War of 1803, was defeated and forced to become a British vassal, residing at Bandā on a pension of four lakhs a year. Himmat Bahādur sided with the English in this war and thus preserved and enlarged his vast jāgir (worth 20 lakhs). On his death without legitimate issue in 1804, his jāgir as held on military tenure, lapsed to Government. The line of the Nawābs of Bandā was extinguished for rebellion during the Mutiny of 1857. (Satara, i. 300, 308. Thorn's Memoir of the War, 240-245. Kaye & Malleson's Indian Mutiny, Cabinet ed., Vols. V. & VI., Atkinson's N.W.P.G., i. 31-41, 130-132.)