History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s3.t3.7

v5.c84.s3.t3.7

In a short time Chhatra Sal's repeated successes decided the waverers. His brother Ratan Shah and many other petty chiefs joined him, and even Durjan Sal, the Hada usurper of Bundi, allied himself with the rebels of Bundelkhand. Chhatra Sal followed the Maratha system of sparing the places that paid him a blackmail of one-fourth of their standard revenue (*chauth*) and plundering those that refused or resisted.