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Title: A comprehensive history of India, civil, military, and social, from the first landing of the English to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt; including an outline of the early history of Hindoostan
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Beveridge, Henry, 1837-1929
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Publisher: London, Blackie
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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as removed to the comparatively insignificantgovernment of Moradabad. B(;tli of these chiefs considering themselves aggrievedby the loss of their more important appointments, hated Hosen, and were di.s-posed to throw their weight into any confederacy that might he formed againstliim. Daoud, naturally the more headstrong and impetuous of the two, was firstworked upon; and no sooner learned that Hosens destruction would be hailedat Delhi as a deliverance, than he resolved to attempt it, not covertly, but liyopen hostility. With this view, having mustered the forces of his own govern-ments, and increased them by leaes from the Mahrattas and other Deccan chiefs among whom he had any influence, he atonce made his appear-ance in the field, andthat there might beno doubt as to hisintentions, sent Ho.senhis defiance. The trial(jf strength thas pro-voked was speedilydecided. Daoud, act-ing with his usual im-j)etuosity, commencedthe battle with acharge, before whiclithose opposed to himwere
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M.HRATTA.s.—From Forbas, Oriental Memoirs; and Bumouf, Llude Francaise. Progressof theMahrattas fleeing panic-struck, when he fell, pierced through the brain with a bullet. The fortune ofthe day was immediately reversed, and Hosen saw his threatened defeat con-verted into a complete victory. While Daoud Khan Panni and Nizam-ul-Moolk governed in the Deccan, theMahrattas, either distracted by internal dissensions, or satisfied with the advan-tageous peace which they had extorted, gave little trouble. The aspect of affairswas now changed. Hosen, offended at the assistance which they had given tohis enemies, and deeming himself strong enougli to put them down by mainforce, was not at all dissatisfied when the proceedings of one of their leadingchiefs gave him good ground for interfering. This chief, whose family namewas Dabari, by establishing a line of fortified villages in Candeish, had becomethe terror of caravans and travellers along the highroad leading from the Dec-can to Surat.
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