30 HISTORY OF AURANGZIB. [CHAP. II.
Bundelas
of
They
But the noblest of the Bundelas did not bow
down to the traitor.
Mahoba keep up gathered under the brave Cham-
opposition.
pat Rao of Mahoba, crowned
Jhujhar's infant son Prithwiraj, and raided the
territory of Urchha. This boy-king was soon
afterwards captured and lodged in the state-
prison of Gwalior. But though one faineant
Rajah after another reigned at Urchha, Champat
Rao and his heroic son Chhatra Sal continued
their wars to the end of the century. With
them, however, it was a fruitless struggle. They
could not hope to hold Urchha for good and
unite the Bundelas under one sceptre; they only
devastated the territory loyal to the Mughals,
and spread havoc and insecurity over the land,
till in the next century a mightier race of plun-
Jhujhar. Their captains are named in Abdul Hamid, I. B.
96-97, 99-100. To contrast the Hindu spirit with the Muham-
madan let us consider an imaginary parallel. Suppose that
when Clive after winning Plassey marched to Murshidabad
and placed Mir Jafar on the throne, he had ordered the chief
mosque of the town to be converted into a Christian church,
where pigs would be sacrificed every year on Atonement
Day, would Mir Jafar have consented to take the crown on
such a condition, would the Muslim troops in the East
India Company's service have submitted to this insult to
their religion?
- Abdul Hamid, ii. 136, 193-194.
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