Later Mughals v1.c9.s14.10

v1.c9.s14.10

In the country round Ajmer and between that place and Mairtha, the villages of Rajah Ajit Singh and those of Jai Singh of Amber are intermingled. The inhabitants of the Jodhpur villages were afraid and took to flight. Thereupon orders were issued to plunder and burn down all villages found uninhabited, but to leave all others unmolested. When this became known, the Jodhpur villages interceded through their Jaipur neighbours; their plundered goods were then restored, the only loss being of the houses that had been burned. The country was thus settled and brought under imperial rule, step by step, as the army moved forward. Abdus-samad Khan, who had been recalled from the Panjab, joined at Puhkar, but at the very first interview he and the Sayyid disagreed. [M. U. i. 321, Ahwal 71b.]