Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c53.s2.3

v4.c53.s2.3

It was to no bed of roses that Lakhwā Dādā succeeded when he became Sindhiā’s viceroy of North India. During the month before, De Boigne had realised some lakhs as tribute from Jaipur and Mācheri, but he had spent this money in paying the salaries of the regular corps (*paltan*) under himself only, while the indigenous Deccani cavalry and the North Indian irregulars (*fauj*) received no part of their long standing dues. A bitter quarrel broke out between the two sections of Sindhia’s army in the North, and it led to rioting, in the course of which the Regulars wounded eight men of the Silahdār cavalry. The indigenous troops vowed vengeance, but Bālobā Pāgnis’s agent pacified them by promising that Lakhwā Dādā would satisfy their claims on returning to his head quarters in Mathurā,—as if the new viceroy could coin money (*DY.* ii. 138, 139).