This book presents an in-depth study of Mughal relations with the rulers of Jodhpurs, major state of Rajasthan during the first half of the eighteenth century. Based on the eighteenth-century Persian and Rajasthani sources, the study focuses on the workings of the Mughal alliance with the Jodhpur Chiefs: the imperial power’s efforts to conciliate and incorporate the Rathor Chiefs of marwar in order to make them reliable, committed and zealous participants in ...