The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.29

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The disturbances of internal peace during this earlier period were neither very important nor successful. The outbreaks which inevitably followed the collapse of civil authority during a war of succession subsided with Aurangzīb’s assertion of his mastery. The Hindu risings against his policy of religious persecution will be described later. The vassal princes who revolted were all crushed like Champat Rāi Bundelā (1661) and Rāi Singh the usurper of Navānagar in Kāthiāwār (1663), or forced to sue for pardon like Rāo Karan of Bīkāner (1660). In fact, these few and strictly localised tumults hardly disturbed the profound internal peace which northern India enjoyed during the first half of this reign.