Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c49.9

v4.c49.9

After the battle of Patan, the Holkar contingent had angrily separated itself from Sindhiā’s army, at not getting an exactly equal share of the guns captured there. This complaint of injustice by their “ally” (Sohbyā in their Marathi despatches) was repeated after the battle of Mertā. And consistently with this spirit, Holkar’s general Dudrenec withdrew from Sindhiā’s army after the battle of Mālpurā (1800) as a protest at half the captured cannon not being given to him, though in this battle his corps had contributed nothing to the victory but owed their life to the Sindhian campoo’s prompt reinforcement of them.