On 6 November 1767, the Rathore and Jat Raja's met together on the banks of the sacred lake, exchanged turbans and sat down side by side on the same carpet like full brothers, and sent an invitation to Madho Singh I to come and join them. The proud Kachwaha, long the foremost Rajput feudatory of the Delhi empire, was provoked beyond endurance by this insult. He sharply reprimanded Vijay Singh for having degraded his Rathore ancestry by admitting a mere servant of the Jaipur state as his brother and political equal. The letter roused Jawahar Singh to fury. He set out on his return wantonly looting the Jaipur villages on his way and molesting their inhabitants.
The battle
The Jats with their immense force and ponderous artillery and baggage train had almost reached his own country, when at Maonda, only south-west of Narnaul. The Kachwaha army which had been following him, delivered the attack. Here a narrow defile lay before the Jats; They sent their baggage ahead, covering it with the troops in the rear. The first attack of the Rajput horse in the open was repulsed by the Jats making a counter march against them as the Kachwaha artillery and infantry were still lagging behind. The Kachwaha horsemen, after firmly standing a devastating fire from Jawahar Singh's guns for some time, threw themselves sword in hand on the enemy, the Jats fled at the first shock, crying out that all was lost and abandoning their artillery, baggage, and king himself.
Aftermath
The Rajputs immediately dispersed for plunder, and an indescribable scene of confusion followed, during which the French sepoys of Samru and Madec kept their heads, and with equal coolness and daring maintained the battle, fighting with their backs to the rocky walls till nightfall. They saved Jawahar Singh and enabled him to make an escape, though the rest of his army had dispersed in flight long before. But all his artillery- 70 pieces of different calibres, tents and baggage including his royal umbrella, had to be abandoned on the field. The total loss on the two sides together was about 5000 men. The Rajputs lost 2000 men mostly because of artillery fire, before which they stood with astonishing firmness; But most of the principal chiefs fell on the field. There was hardly a noble family in Jaipur that did not sacrifice a son or two on that day. Dalil Singh, the commander-in-chief of the Jaipur army, fell in the fight with three generations of his descendants, and none but the boys of ten remained to represent the baronial houses of Jaipur.
Jaipur nobles who fought
On the Jaipur side almost all the Kacchawa and Shekhawat thikana had representation.
