History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c36.s4.13

v3.c36.s4.13

In order to understand the real cause of many of the village disorders in Mughal times, we must bear in mind that the population was dynamic, not static. Internal movements of the people were constantly going on. In different generations different tribes were migrating to new districts and trying to push away the older settlers and make a home for themselves. Or, as it oftener happened, a clan that had entered a district as servants and tenants, in a few generations grew strong enough to overthrow their masters and become the dominant tribe and owner of the land. Thus, the Tenwa Jats first entered Mathura and Aligarh about 1600, but sixty years later they had multiplied so greatly as to make themselves lords of the Joar pargana. Their chief Nandram withheld revenue during the War of Succession, but had to submit to Aurangzib about 1660. (N. W. P. Gaz., ii. 428).