There are many misconceptions about the Shekhawats and the region they occupied in the history of Rajputana, mostly based on wrong facts, documents and records. Even the theories propounded by scholars like C.U. Wills are not based on perfect, adequate and contemporary sources and, therefore, draw wrong inferences, for example, that Shekhawats were no better then the Ijaredars, that Shekhawati was under the close Mughal control, that Shekhawati was created by the ...