History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c49.s7.3

v3.c49.s7.3

Ajit grew up in strict concealment among a monastic brotherhood on the lonely rock of Abu. But his escape from Delhi had become known and his name became the rallying cry of the Rathor legitimists. Aurangzib's policy in Marwar seemed to have been wrecked. But his statecraft struck a shrewd blow to counter the action of Durgadas: he brought up a milkman's infant in his harem as the true Ajit Singh and proclaimed Durgadas's protege to be a bogus prince. At the same time he dismissed the degraded Tahir Khan, the *faujdar* of Jodhpur, for failure to keep Durgadas out, and also dethroned Indra Singh, the two months' Rajah of Marwar, for his manifest incapacity to "rule fifty thousand Rathor blades." (*M.A.* 179; *Dilkasha*, 165; Tod, ii. ch. 7.)