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Ajit Singh… sent a message humbly asking that Khan Zaman and the Kaziu’I-Kuzat might come into Jodhpur, to rebuild the mosques, destroy idol-temples, enforce the provisions of the law about the summons to prayer and the killing of cows, to appoint magistrates and to commission officers to collect the jizya. His submission was graciously accepted, and his requests granted…

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Ajit Singh's message. During reign of Shah ‘Alam Bahadur Shah Padshah Ghazi (AD 1707-1712) at Jodhpur (Rajasthan), in Muntikhabu’l-Lubab in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own historians,, Vol. VII, p. 405. , in Hindu Temples, vol 2

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