Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c53.s3.26

v4.c53.s3.26

Bālā Rao Inglé, who had made an armistice with Lakhwā Dādā on 10th May, held several interviews with him during that month for effecting a reconciliation. In the end, Bālā Rao marched towards Mālwā and Lakhwā Dādā from Chitor to Udaipur. Before the month was over, formal letters were received from Daulat Rao Sindhiā, appointing Lakhwā as his viceroy in Hindustan again. But Ambāji would not part with his viceroyalty over Mewār, by which he had amassed a fortune for eight years; he began to coerce the Mewār barons who had sided with Lakhwā in the late contest. His son, Bhāu Inglé, joined by George Thomas's disciplined corps reduced several baronial forts near Shāhpurā city. This move called up Lakhwā from Udaipur to the scene in support of his partisans. He called in his detachments and allies and by an attack seized six guns from Ambāji's diwān Nānā Ganesh. And yet peace parleys and skirmishes between the two sides went on together for many weeks.