History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c82.s1.4

v5.c82.s1.4

The Tenwa clan of Jats had first entered the Mathura and Aligarh districts about 1600 as servants and peasants, but in the next sixty years they had grown powerful enough to make themselves masters of the Joar pargana. Their chief Nandaram had withheld revenue at the end of Shah Jahan's reign, but had been forced to submit in 1660. Nine years later the Jat peasantry rose under Gokla, the zamindar of Tilpat,[*] killed Abdun Nabi, the Mughal faujdar of Mathura, and spread disorder through the Mathura and Agra districts. After nearly a year of fighting, the rising was suppressed with terrible bloodshed by Hassan Ali Khan, the Jat stronghold was taken, Gokla was captured and put to death, and their mud-forts were dismantled. [Vol. iii. ch. 26 and 35.]