Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c53.s3.21

v4.c53.s3.21

But he was soon drawn to another field. The Rānā of Udaipur, profiting by Daulat Rao's distress, made an attack upon those places in the Ajmer subah which he had been forced to cede to Mahādji Sindhiā's local agent Gulābji Kadam. At the end of March, Lakhwā detached a force of three thousand to help the Rānā, who then renewed his attack and defeated Gulābji with great slaughter (c. 5 April, 1799). On 9th April, Lakhwā Dādā himself entered Mewār with his whole force (from Mandesor) and attacked Hāmirgarh, to which Gulābji had fled for refuge after his disastrous defeat.