The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.104

v4.c19.104

Thus Mewār regained peace and freedom, but Mārwār continued a scene of war and devastation for twenty-nine years more, which will be described in chapter x. In the height of political unwisdom, Aurangzīb wantonly provoked rebellion among the loyal Rājputs, while the frontier Afghāns were still far from being subdued. With the two leading Rājput clans openly hostile to him, his army lost its finest and most loyal native recruits. The trouble spread by contagion from the Rāthors and Sisodias to the Hārā and Gaur clans, and the lawlessness here set moving overflowed into Mālwa and heartened every opponent of the imperial government throughout India.