Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s3.t1.36

v2.c28.s3.t1.36

Though Sawai, with his party, apparently acquiesced, his determination was taken; but instead of an immediate appeal to arms, he adopted a deeper scheme of policy, the effects of which he could not have contemplated, and which involved his own destruction, and with it the independence of his country, which was transferred to [142] strangers, their very antipodes in manners, religion, and every moral quality. His first act was to procure a more powerful protection than Pokaran afforded; and under the guarantee of Chhattar Singh Bhatti, he was sent to the saran (sanctuary) of Abhai Singh of Khetri.¹ Having so far succeeded, he contrived an underplot, in which his genius for intrigue appears not below his reputation as a soldier.