Rajput And Aurangzeb History - General Knowledge of Modern India

Rajput And Aurangzeb History - General Knowledge of Modern India

Dissatisfied with Aurangzeb's religious and administrative policies, major Rajput states like Mewar (Udaipur), Marwar (Jodhpur) and Amer (Jaipur) separated from the Mughal Empire. The rulers of Jodhpur and Jaipur were appointed as the Mughal governors of Gujarat and Malwa. For a time it seemed that the Rajputs were regaining their position and influence in the Mughal Empire and emerging as the main allies of the Mughal Empire against the Jats and Marathas. 

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The kings of Jodhpur and Jaipur took under their influence a large part of the Mughal Empire during the period of the later Mughals. After the death of Aurangzeb, the kings of Jodhpur and Jaipur began to play a major role in the politics of Delhi.

The most prominent Rajput king of this time was Sawai Raja Jai ​​Singh of Amber, who was first appointed governor of Surat and later Agra. He founded a beautiful city like Jaipur and built constellation observatories (Jantar-Mantar) at Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Ujjain and Mathura. 

The area from Agra to Surat in his hands helped him to make his kingdom strong and prosperous. With the rise of Jats, Marathas and other regional states, their jagirs outside their kingdom began to decline and their influence also gradually decreased.

Although the political power of the Rajputs had waned, the influence of a Rajasthani group had increased in the country's economy. These were the merchants who were involved in the trade between the important centers of Gujarat, Delhi, Agra at that time. With the decline of the empire, the commercial importance of these centers also started decreasing. So these merchants moved towards new centers and started controlling trade and commerce in Bengal, Awadh and Deccan.