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JATS.

urged the employment of the national and heretofore successful method of irregular warfare, as more effective against the enemy. But the Mahratta commander, Sudasheo Rao Bhow, who had taken up his position on the field of Paniput, was elated to the highest degree; the counsel of the Jat leader was dismissed with contempt, if not, indeed, with positive insult; and the day before the battle, which was fought on the 7th January, 1761, and ended in the total ruin of the vast Mahratta host, he departed from their camp, and returned to Bhurtpoor. Subsequent struggles with the Mahrattas occurred during the period when Sindia was consolidating his own power after separation from the general Mahratta confederacy; but they did not affect the independent position which the Jats had secured, and which they have since maintained.