ABSTRACT
In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Jats under Suraj Mal stepped into prominence as a leading power in north India. His son and successor Jawahir Singh tried to transform the tribal headship into the pattern of a full-fledged royalty and to plant the Jat standard in the imperial city of Delhi. The encirclement of the infantry columns immobilized the Jat cavalry which depended for its advance upon the artillery curtain and Anupgiri had to pull his men out after a heavy bloodbath, January 1765. Jawahir's grand scheme failed; the Gosains, however, had acquitted themselves very creditably, amidst the puny Jat chiefs such as Balram Ramkrishna Mahant and others with their narrow selfish intersts and the perfidious allies like Malhar and Imad. His armed march across the Jaipur territory to Pushkar lake that followed the expulsion of the Gosains was disastrous to the Jat raja and hastened the downfall of the Jat power in Bundelkhand.
