Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s13.14

v4.c56.s13.14

As for the allies whom Wellesley planned to secure among Sindhia's minor political dependents, they hardly counted for much. The Rajput Rajas were useless as friends or foes, though they were approached by letters. "The chiefs of Bundelkhand are so divided and torn into factions, that it will be easy to secure one party." The dispossessed Jāt prince of Gohad was set up against his hereditary enemy the House of Sindhia, as we have seen. Lake knew that "The Rajput and Jāt Rajas are disgusted with the Marātha rule. . . . The defeat of Perron would be the signal for a general defection of all these chiefs from the Marātha interests.” Thus the diplomatic isolation of Sindhia was completed. (MM. iii. 192, 228, 229, 243, 409-411.)