Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c53.s3.13

v4.c53.s3.13

In Punā the universal dissatisfaction with Daulat Rao’s government drove his troops to mutiny for their pay and demand the removal of the new ministers. But retribution was to descend on Sharzā Rāo and his infatuated master from another quarter. On 15th May, 1798 Sharzā Rao personally ill-treated the widows of Mahādji Sindhiā who then raised the banner of revolt against Daulat Rao; after defeat in a battle at Bhāmburdā (25th June), they escaped to the South Maratha country and gathered armed support there, while they issued an appeal to the army in North India to espouse their cause. Thus an even worse confusion than before fell on the Sindhian administration in the North and South alike, and its utter dissolution seemed imminent.