The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.205

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Jay Singh received an order to crush the Jāts. Their country lay between Jay Singh’s capital and the seat of his new government, and he attacked them on his way to Āgra. A family quarrel gave him the help of Badan Singh, Churāman’s nephew, in the siege of Thūn,¹ in the course of which Churāman quarrelled with his son Muhkam Singh and poisoned himself. Muhkam Singh fled from Thūn, which was occupied by Jay Singh’s troops on 19 November, and Badan Singh, in exchange for an undertaking to pay tribute regularly to Delhi, was recognised as Rājā of Dīg, where he laid the foundations of the Jāt state of Bharatpur,² which has played a prominent part in the later history of India.