The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai A Record of Matters Political Historical Social and Personal from 1736 to 1761 (Oct. 1748 - Mar. 1750)

The second runs from July 28 to September 4 1749 ; and consequently we lack the detail of the movements just before the battle of Amber the battle itself and the events immediately following. [...] Of the events leading up to that battle we see something in the earlier part of the following pages INTROntICTION The news of Chanda Sahib's liberation by the Marathas and his advance at the head of an army had reached Pondichery some months before the present volume opens. [...] On this Chanda Sahib's army withdrew to a short distance from the walls.' It has usually been supposed that Chanda Sahib continued in the neighbourhood of Tanjore owing to the guile of the Raja who as far as possible delayed the payments which he had agreed to make and that this delay brought about the second beleagnerment of the place in the month of February. [...] C"xii THE DIARY OP AMANDA RANGA PI[ LAI Tanjore out of consideration for the Marathas ; but now that news had come of the Sahu Raja's death he proposed capturing the plabe and begged the orders of Dupleix to both the French troops and the sepoys that they should abstaip from plunder. [...] When the Karilial runner wished to enter [the Fort] lie was stopped and sent by the sepoys and the European at the gate to the Governor who asked him angrily why he came this 'way instead of that and gave me the letter to be sent off at once.