Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c58.s10: § 13. Sindhia and Bhonslé make peace
Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c58.s10
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§ 13. Sindhia and Bhonslé make peace
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In the other theatres of the war, too, unrelieved disaster had overtaken the confederated Rajas. Bārabāti fort in Katak had been stormed by the English on 14th October, and the province of Orissa had come into English possession, thus allowing them to join their provinces of Bengal and Madras by an unbroken land route. In Gujrat Broach was stormed from Sindhia's garrison on 29th August, and the fort of Pāwāgarh and its town of Champaner fell on 17th September. So, too, in Bundelkhand, Shamsher Bahadur had been defeated on the Ken river (at Kapsā) on 10th October and Kalpi captured on 4th December, and that Maratha vassal forced to become an English pensioner by the end of the year. Ambāji Inglé had made a treaty of alliance with the English on 16th December, one result of which was the delivery of Sindhia's rock-fortress of Gwalior to the English (effected on 4th February 1804).
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Thus dense clouds of failure and loss completely encircled the two Rajas as the year 1803 approached its end. Raghuji Bhonslé was the first to recognise his own helplessness. On 17th December, he signed the Treaty of Deogāon, by which
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1. Raghuji Bhonslé ceded to the E. I. Co. the province of Orissa.
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2. Raghuji Bhonslé ceded to the British and the Nizām all the territory to the west of the Wardhā river and south of the hills on which Narnālā and Gawilgarh stand, but he retained some districts (with a revenue of four lakhs) south of these two forts.
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3. The Bhonslé Raja renounced all his claims in the territories ceded as above.
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4. In addition, the Bhonslé Raja agreed to submit all his disputes with any other Power, to British arbitration and also never to take or retain in his service the subject of any European or American Power or any British subject (whether European or Indian) without the consent of the British Government.
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5. Raghuji Bhonslé renounced his adherence to the confederacy lately formed by him with Daulat Rao Sindhia, and engaged himself not to assist any chiefs hostile to the English. [MM. iii. 633.]
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Daulat Rao Sindhia, too, at last saw reason. After some diplomatic shuffling and evasive talks, he signed the Treaty of Sarji Anjangaon, on 30th December 1803, on the following terms: —
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1. Sindhia ceded to the E. I. Co. and its allies, in perpetual sovereignty, all his forts, territories and rights in the Gangā-Jamunā Doab, and his rights and claims in the countries lying north of the Jaipur and Jodhpur kingdoms, and the Gohad Rana's territory.
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2. Sindhia ceded to the E. I. Co. in perpetual sovereignty the forts of Baroach and Ahmadnagar and their dependent territory, and also the lands lying south of the Ajanta hills.
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3. Sindhia renounced all claims of any kind in the above districts as well as claims of every description upon the British, the Nizam, the Peshwa and the Gaekwad.
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4. But Asir, Burhānpur, Pāvāgarh, and their dependencies were restored to Sindhia.
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5. Sindhia confirmed all the treaties made by the British Government with his feudatories.
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6. In his disputes with the Peshwa about their respective rights in Malwa and elsewhere, Sindhia agreed to abide by the decision of the E. I. Co.
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7. Sindhia renounced all claims upon the Emperor Shah Alam II and engaged to interfere no further in the affairs of His Majesty.
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8. Sindhia engaged never to take or retain in his service any European or American or British Indian subject, without the consent of the British. [M.M. iii. 634.]