History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c81.s5.1

v5.c81.s5.1

This reconciliation with Durgadas took place in May 1698, but within three years of it there was another rupture. Durgadas had been employed as faujdar of Patan (in Gujrat) to keep him out of Marwar. But in 1701-2 he was driven into rebellion a second time. In fact both he and Ajit Singh had continued to distrust the Mughal Government and kept themselves at a suspicious distance from the Court. Early in 1701, Ajit Singh, though repeatedly summoned to pay his respects in person to the Emperor, like other high nobles, put off going there under various pretexts. [*Mirat*, 363.] After the death of Shujaet Khan (9 July 1701), a rupture could no longer be averted. The new governor, Prince Muhammad Azam Shah, was haughty and imperious. He was ordered by the Emperor to send Durgadas to the imperial camp if he could, otherwise to kill him there, so that Durga might no more instigate Ajit Singh and the other Rathors.*