Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c54.s1.3

v4.c54.s1.3

Thenceforth Bhawānī Shankar acted as Jaswant Rao’s guardian, prime minister, diplomatic agent, and lieutenant in campaigns. When Daulat Rao Sindhia and Kāshi Rao Holkar sent a detachment to take delivery of the prisoner from the hands of the Nāgpur Rajah, Bhawānī Shankar contrived the young prince’s escape from his guards, in disguise, on 9th April 1798, just before the arrival of his enemies. After many hair-breadth escapes and romantic adventures, the fugitive prince made his way to the Bhil country of East Khandesh, in the wooded plateau of Akrāni,* whose lord was a Rajput baron named Rajah Bhāu Singh.