Rao Shekha

[1] On Rao Mokal's Death in AD 1445, the twelve year old Maharao Shekhaji Succeeded his father's estates at Amarsar.

[2] Shekhaji succeeded as the head of the Nayan and Barwada estate, along with 24 more villages, at the age of 12, as a result of the untimely death of his father Mokal Ji in 1445.

[3][page needed] When Shekhaji inherited his father's estate, his reputation and power attracted the jealousy of the Lord Paramount of Amber.

Up to this period they had acknowledged the Amber princes as liege lords[citation needed], and in token of the alliance paid as tribute all the colts reared on the original estate.

A dispute on this point was the ostensible cause (though subordinate to their rapid prosperity) of intermittent separations of the Shekhawat colonies from the parent state, which lasted until the reign of Sawai Jai Singh, who brought submission and pecuniary relief from them.