Rajput Rebellion (1708–1710)

On 8 June 1707, Bidar Bakht and his father Azam Humayun were killed in battle and Jai Singh retreated.

Bahadur Shah after becoming the new emperor marched towards Rajputana where the Rathors under Durgadas had been fighting the Mughals for thirty years.

Ajit Singh had taken Jodhpur after the death of Aurangzeb and ousted Mehrab Khan and the Mughal garrisons.

When Bahadur Shah reached close to Marwar, Ajit Singh started negotiations after seeing the size of the imperial army.

Bahadur Shah had thus repeated the Marwar scenario of Aurangzeb which had previously resulted to the thirty-year war with the Rathors.

[1] The Mughal regent Asad Khan attempted to make peace with the Rajputs, however this was unsuccessful.

[5] When Bahadur Shah got to know of this defeat, he immediately tried to sue for peace by offering to restore Ajit Singh and Jai Singh to their thrones, however the Rajputs demanded the restoration of their lands that had been forcefully taken by Aurangzeb in 1679 and the expulsion of the Mughals from Rajputana.

Jai Singh also started sending letters to the Bundelas, Sikhs and the Marathas in order to spread discontent in the country against the Mughals.