Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.186

v2.c28.186

On the union of the imperial house with that of Jodhpur, by the marriage of Jodh Bai to Akbar,² the emperor not only restored all the possessions he had wrested from Marwar, with the exception of Ajmer, but several rich districts in Malwa, whose revenues doubled the resources of his own fiscal domain. With the aid of his imperial brother-in-law, he greatly diminished the power of the feudal aristocracy [35], and clipped the wings of almost all the greater vassals, while he made numerous sequestrations of the lands of the ancient allodiality and lesser vassals ; so that it is stated, that, either by new settlement or confiscation, he added fourteen hundred villages to the fisc. He resumed almost all the lands of the sons of Duda, who, from their abode, were termed Mertia ; took Jaitaran from the Udawats, and other towns of less note from the sons of Champa and Kumpa.