Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c12.s3.9

v1.c12.s3.9

We shall now turn to the ever fluctuating tides of the contest for Bundi between Dalil Singh (supported by his father-in-law the Rajah of Jaipur, on whom fell the entire brunt of the contest) and Budh Singh and his heir Ummed Singh who secured Marātha allies besides being joined (after 1743) by Ishwari Singh's rival Mādho Singh (whose cause was championed by his maternal uncle, the Mahārānā of Udaipur.) Budh Singh had been deprived of his capital and throne in 1729. The Marāthas had conquered Bundi back for Budh Singh in April 1734, but immediately after their departure, Jai Singh had wrested it from Budh Singh's agent and restored it to his protege. When Jai Singh died (21 Sep. 1743), the dispossessed heir of Bundi, then in his 15th year, rose to recover his patrimony. Durjan Sāl, the Maharao of Kotā (r. 1723-1757), very generously befriended the fugitive Ummed.