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.”