daryaoganj

Updated: May 1, 2025

Here ensued a series of skirmishes, which lasted four days; till the Mirza having had a nephew slain, retreated to the new town by way of Daryaoganj, followed by a strong detachment of the enemy. Holkar and his train of black and unkempt pygmies swarmed insolently into the palace, where they dictated their own terms.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan