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The Rajputs drove out the Mughal officers and recovered Jodhpur and Amber; Bahadur Shah restored both rajas in 1710.
01Escape from the camp
Jai Singh II had backed Azam Shah at Jajau, and Bahadur Shah punished him by giving Amber to his younger brother Vijay Singh and posting a Mughal officer there. Ajit Singh of Marwar, who had spent his childhood hidden from Aurangzeb while Durgadas Rathore fought for him, had seized Jodhpur in 1707; Bahadur Shah marched on it and forced his submission. In 1708, as the emperor went south against his brother Kam Bakhsh, both rajas left his camp and rode to Udaipur.
02Rajasthan recovered
At Udaipur, Maharana Amar Singh II made an alliance with them, sealed by a marriage of a Mewar princess to Jai Singh on the condition that her sons would have first claim to the Amber throne. The allied Rajputs retook Jodhpur and then Amber, and beat the Mughal faujdars near Sambhar. Bahadur Shah was soon called away by the rising of Banda Singh Bahadur in the Punjab. In 1710 he recognised both rajas in their kingdoms. Mughal authority in Rajasthan never recovered.
The rising ended the long Mughal effort to control Marwar begun in 1679; the marriage clause of 1708 later fed the Jaipur succession war of the 1740s.
