Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c44.s2.68

v4.c44.s2.68

So, Sindhia's generals, after making some little money collection in the Shekhāwati district, by-passed Jaipur and laid siege to Ajmer fort (on 21st August). At the same time Mahādji Sindhia, by a master stroke of strategy, terrified and neutralised the Rajah of Jaipur by pushing a large detachment from his camp in Mathurā, on to Bhusāwar (15th Aug.), on the eastern frontier of the Jaipur State, in readiness to invade that country if its troops marched west to aid the Marwar army then defending Ajmer. Finally in order to strike even greater terror, he announced that he would join the campaign in person, and as an earnest of it, he left his cantonments in Mathurā (28th Aug.) and entered his "marching tents" outside that holy city, and a few days later advanced to Shāntanu-kund.