Ahirs from Tijara participated in Battle of Nasibpur under the leadership of Raja Rao Tula Ram and Pran Sukh Yadav.

After the victory Humayun granted Jagirdari of Pargana to Ruda Singh( Prakrit word for Rudra) which later came to be known as Rewari.

[8][9][10][11] An early mention of Tijara is found in the book, Mirat ul Masaud, which relates how Saiyad Ibrahim Mashhadi Barah Hazari (died 421 AH / 1030 CE), teacher of Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud, and an officer of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, in A.H. 420 (1030 CE) attacked Dhundgarh near Rewari, the Raja of which fled to his kinsman, Rao Tej Pal.

Munshi Hakimuddin, who served as Chief Secretary at Bhopal during the reign of Shah Jahan Begum, is a direct descendant of Syed Maroofuddin Ghazi.

[13] A sanad (decree conferring the title of property) of Akbar's time speaks of "Tijara Shahbad" as though they were the principal towns of a district.

[14] In the Ain-i-Akbari, the Khanzada Rajputs tribe was living in Tijara, where they occupied a brick fort along with 405,108 bighas of land of which the annual revenue was 11,906,847 rupees.

Subahdar Khalilullah went for an aide to Aurangzeb, who then sent Jai Singh I to crush the revolting Khanzada chief, Ikram Khan.

He was king or jagirdar of Kotkasim (region of Alwar), Tapukara (Tijara), Bawal, Taoru, Pataudi, Nuh, Hodal, Palwal, Sohna(Gurgaon) and surrounding areas, in addition to his jagir.

He overthrow Iranian invader and businessman Jauki Ram and added Rewari Pargana (area other than Bawal) into his jagir.

Fateh Naseeb Khan of the Khanzada community, who was the Commander-in-chief of Alwar State in early 1930s, hailed from Tijara.

[24] The Tijari fort at Alwar is not a ruin but a building that had been left unfinished in 1845 because of war; the Neemrana Hotels has undertaken completion.

Nearby towns are Ferozepur Jhirka and Nuh in Haryana, and Alwar, Tapukara, Bhiwadi, and Kishangarh Bas in Rajasthan.