Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c56.s13.3

v4.c56.s13.3

Among the Sindhian deputies in North India the foremost in wealth and political position and second only in military strength, was Ambāji Inglé. As Mahādji Sindhia’s Agent-General in Mewār for eight years, he had amassed a fortune which was said to have exceeded a krore and a half. He also held the subahdāri of the Sindhian province south of Agra and including the whole of Mālwā, which had an annual revenue of 80 lakhs. After the dismissal of Lakhwā Dādā, (1800), he had been made Daulat Rao’s viceroy of Hindustan. In fact, as the British Resident observed in October 1796, “Ambāji is rather a subsidiary chief than a servant. He maintains in his own immediate pay a force nearly equal to that of Sindhia in Hindustan; he possesses immense personal wealth, and farms about a krore of Sindhia’s revenue, having Gwalior and other strong places in his custody. . . . Thus powerful, he is suspected of entertaining views of independence at the expense of Daulat Rao.”*