The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.87

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Mārwār was the foremost Hindu state in Aurangzīb's empire. Its chieftain was Jasvant Singh Rāthor, who enjoyed the unique rank of Mahārājā and whom the death of Jay Singh Kachhwāha in 1667 had left without a rival as the foremost Hindu peer of the Mughul court. Jasvant's audacity in confronting Aurangzīb at Dharmat and treachery to him at Khajuhā had evidently been condoned by the emperor, who had afterwards given him high and responsible posts. When Jasvant died (20 December, 1678) in command of the outpost of Jamrūd, Aurangzīb at once seized his kingdom and placed it under direct Mughul rule, and himself moved to Ajmer in order to be close enough to Jodhpur to overawe Rāthor national opposition. The success of the emperor's plan for the forcible destruction of Hinduism required that Jasvant's state should sink into a tame dependency or a regular province of the empire, and Hindu resistance to the policy of religious persecution should be deprived of a possible head and rallying point.