History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c82.s5.1

v5.c82.s5.1

Rao Gopal Singh Chandawat, the zamindar of Rampura in Malwa, was serving in the Emperor's army in the Deccan. He had sent his son Ratan Singh home to manage his affairs. This wicked youth made himself master of the zamindari, drove out his father's agents, and stopped sending the revenue to Gopal Singh. The Emperor paid no heed to the father's complaints; Ratan Singh became a convert to Islam, through Mukhtar Khan the governor of Malwa, and thus secured from the Emperor the grant of his ancestral estate, which was newly named Islampura! At the news of it, Gopal Singh left the Mughal army, returned home, and tried to raise a body of men for recovering Rampura (June 1700). But the Malwa governor's forces, assisted by Ratan Singh, marched against him, and he had to flee into the territory of Udaipur (Feb. 1701.) [*Dil.* ii. 130*a* ; *Akh.*]