leave Jhujhar in possession of his conquest if he
ceded an equivalent territory to the Mughals!
This the Bundela was most unwilling to do.
Deciding on a policy of resistance, he secretly
recalled his son Yograj (surnamed Vikramajit),
whom he had left in charge of his contingent in
Balaghat. The youth slipped away unperceived.
But an energetic Mughal officer, Khan-i-Dauran, was soon at his heels, reached Ashta from
Burhanpur by forced marches in five days, and overtook Vikramajit, who fled defeated and wounded to his father at Dhamuni.[1]
A habitual plunderer and refractory chieftain could not be left unsubdued on Refuses to submit to the Emperor. the edge of the Deccan road. Shah Jahan organised an expedition to hunt him down. Three armies were to converge upon the rebel's country: Syed Khan-i-Jahan with 10,500 men from Budaun, Abdullah Khan Bahadur Firuz Jang with 6,000 men from Armies sent against him. the north, and Khan-i-Dauran with 6,000 men from the southwest. The Bundela army
- ↑ Abdul Hamid, I. B. 95-96. Chauragarh is in the Narsinghpur District, C. P., about 10 miles S. E. of the Gadarwara Station. Dhamuni is near the Dhasan river 24 m. north of Saugor in C. P. (Ind. Atlas, 70 S. W.).
