11-23-2010, 06:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-23-2010, 06:47 AM by Bharatvarsh2.)
I was a bit confused about the last campaign of Baji Rao against Nasir Jung the Nizam's son, according to this book he was defeated by Nasir:
[url="http://books.google.ca/books?id=Io-ONHNwsLkC&pg=PA182&dq=records+of+fort+st.+george+country+correspondence+nasir&hl=en&ei=H1brTM-KC9mynwf2t8HsAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=records%20of%20fort%20st.%20george%20country%20correspondence%20nasir&f=false"]My link[/url]
The author refers to a Persian chronicle written around 1802 as his reference but also a contemporary English record titled "Records of Fort St. George, Country Correspondence, 1740".
VG Dighe disputes this account in his book here on pg's 202-203 and quotes Jadunath Sarkar's comments for not trusting the Persian chronicle, but he seems to be unaware of any English records:
http://library.du.ac.in/dspace/html/1/70...apter2.pdf
It is indeed strange for the winning party to grant jagirs to the losing party but what about the British records.
So I checked for that and came up with:
[url="http://books.google.ca/books?id=ek88AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9&img=1&pgis=1&dq=narsar&sig=ACfU3U2mXdRaEL_2SSn30KAoxXxFwADycQ&edge=0"]My link[/url]
Source: Country correspondence, Public Dept, Volume 1 on google books.
So its likely that he was indeed defeated in the very last battle of his life.
[url="http://books.google.ca/books?id=Io-ONHNwsLkC&pg=PA182&dq=records+of+fort+st.+george+country+correspondence+nasir&hl=en&ei=H1brTM-KC9mynwf2t8HsAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=records%20of%20fort%20st.%20george%20country%20correspondence%20nasir&f=false"]My link[/url]
The author refers to a Persian chronicle written around 1802 as his reference but also a contemporary English record titled "Records of Fort St. George, Country Correspondence, 1740".
VG Dighe disputes this account in his book here on pg's 202-203 and quotes Jadunath Sarkar's comments for not trusting the Persian chronicle, but he seems to be unaware of any English records:
http://library.du.ac.in/dspace/html/1/70...apter2.pdf
It is indeed strange for the winning party to grant jagirs to the losing party but what about the British records.
So I checked for that and came up with:
[url="http://books.google.ca/books?id=ek88AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9&img=1&pgis=1&dq=narsar&sig=ACfU3U2mXdRaEL_2SSn30KAoxXxFwADycQ&edge=0"]My link[/url]
Source: Country correspondence, Public Dept, Volume 1 on google books.
So its likely that he was indeed defeated in the very last battle of his life.
Banda Bahadur paid back the Muslims in their own coin, if only other Hindu rulers were like him...

