भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 346, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 346
- Abdali had been secretly given reports of this forthcoming imperial treaty with the Marathas six months or more before the actual event. That is why in 1749, he invaded India for the second time simply to oppose the Marathas. So the imperial governor of Punjab, Mir Mannu, himself ceded helplesssly Thattha, Sindh (Multan), Punjab and other adjoining territories to Abdali and accepted the overlordship of the latter over that region. Satisfied with the thought that the Maratha authority over that region, relegated to them by the imperial treaty, was wiped out by the abject surrender of Mir Mannu, the imperial officer-in-charge of that part, and that the time for further advance was not yet, Abdali once again went back to Kabul.
- But the Marathas were highly infuriated at this duplicity of the imperial officers and the reported mute consent of the Emperor himself to the treacherous act. The Marathas vowed to avenge Abdali's usurpation of the regions between Sindh, Thattha and Punjab, in defiance of the Moghal- Maratha treaty just as furiously as would a cobra, whose tail has been trodden down wilfully. But they were at this time preoccupied with the South-Indian Muslims, the westerners like the Portuguese and also with the domestic political troubles at Satara. As such, Nanasahib Peshwa ordered Malharrao Holkar and Jayajirao Shinde, and the two Maratha leaders crossed the Jamuna and fell upon the fifty-to sixty-thousand-strong army of the Rohillas encamped at Kadargunj on the 20th March, 1751. The Pathans fought tenaciously, but in the end, the Marathas completely routed and destroyed the joint army of the ‘original and legitimate’ Pathans and Rohillas. Quickly following this signal success, the Marathas fought the Pathan, Ahmadkhan Bangash, who had come on a hot scent to Farukhabad with his army. Ahmadkhan took shelter in Farukhabad and was timely joined by the second mighty army of the Rohillas. But again, the Marathas besieged the conjoint army of these ‘true born’ Rohilla-Pathans in the month of April, 1751, and fetching them in open field, inflicted a crushing defeat on that huge army on the 28ᵗʰ of April, 1751. About twenty to twenty-five thousand Pathans and Rohillas were cut off in the battle. Everything belonging to them including their camp was plundered. Thousands of horses, elephants, camels and the battery of guns were all captured. Jayappa Shinde writes in his letter, “The devotees of Hari appropriated that booty to themselves.”