History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c81.s5.8

v5.c81.s5.8

When Durgadas was back again in Marwar as an enemy of the empire, Ajit Singh joined him in open rebellion (1702) and made some attacks on the Mughals. [*Mirat*, 373.] But the two could effect nothing. Owing to incessant war and spoliation, frequent famines and drought,† and many years' plague in Gujrat and the neighbouring districts of Rajputana, the economic exhaustion of Marwar was complete, and war-weariness seized the Rathor clansmen after a quarter century of continuous guerilla fighting. As the bard Karani-dan writes of the year 1702, "Ajit retired to Jhalor. Some Rathor chiefs took service with the Maharana and some with the Mughals. Muslim oppression reached its climax."