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Battle of Dudhu Chak

was a battle fought on 27 February 1339 near Satwari Plains in Jammu. The Dogra army under the command of Maharaja Mal Dev defeated the Gurkani army, under the command of Timur. The Raja made a sudden sally, surprised and routed the invading force and took shelter in lofty fastnesses. Timur's forces reacted by advancing upto the foot of the hill of Jammu but retreated after plundering the neighburing villages.

Aftermath
the tradition recorded by Ganesh Da s and G.C. Smyth affirms that it was Mai Dev, who was contemporary < f Timur and who died in about 1400 A.D. The Dogra folk ballands gi e a different version of Mai Dev's role in the affair. In one of the lege*.ds it is narrated that Mai Dev organised a confedercy of Rajas against Timur and fought the invaders in defending Kangra, and died there a heroic death. Another balled lauds Mai Dev's terrible battle with the invaders in which Timur was badly repulsed. It is probable that the "Raja of Jammu" which Timur's men captured in ambush cade, was not the Raja, but only a vassal of the King of Jammu, who, along with 'fifty rais and Rajputs' might have come down the valley of the Tawi on way to the plain country lying across it, and fell iuto ambuscade. It was some zamindar or rai who was forcibly converted to Islam, and not the King of Jammu. That is why the great Rakwal, Chandel and Chauhan Rajput dynasties did not besitate to marry their daughters to Mai Dev's successor. In case of Mai Dev's conversion to Islam this could not have been possible in Rajputs, who were overzealous for the preservation of the purity of their blood. Ganesh Dass records another tradition. He siates that Timur invited Mai Dev to submission and conversion to Islam, to which the proud Raja replied by recourse to fight. Mai Dev made a sudden sally, surprised and routed the invading force and took shelter in lofty fastnesses. Timur's forces reacted by advancing upto the foot of the hill of Jammu.70 but retreated after plundering the neighbouring villages. TimurV battles in the hills seem to have been against the crowds of people, who were wont to hover around the recreating invaders with the intention of reli ving them of some of the booty.