[citation needed] During the Partition, the princely states of Alwar and Bharatpur were the sites of a pogrom directed against the Muslim Meo community.

The Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) grew in importance with the patronage of their durbars.

Discriminatory taxation led to a tax revolt by the Muslim Meo population, in the course of which the state army opened fire on a crowd with machine guns at Govindgarh on January 7–8, 1933, and killed more than 30 people.

Nevertheless, Ian Copland, examining census records, shows how the Muslim population which had been 26.2% in Alwar in 1941 and 19.2% in Bharatpur, dropped after the pogroms, conversions and flight, to 6% in both states.

[citation needed] Maharaja Kishan Singh was born at Moti Mahal, Bharatpur on 4 October 1899 in a Jat family.