Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c55.s7.2
Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c55.s7.2
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v4.c55.s7.2
When Mahādji Sindhiā left North India for the Deccan (early in 1792), his governor of Hindustan, Gopāl Bhāu, strengthened his posts in the Upper Doāb; he himself marched up from his base at Mathurā to Delhi (7th March), and appointed two senior officers, Ravloji Sindhiā and Mādho Rao Phālké, to the Doāb to guard it against the Sikhs. This Marātha viceroy had a new and powerful engine of war in De Boigne's disciplined brigades, and after he had taken post at Sonpat (c. 17th April 1792), the Sikhs were kept in awe for some time.