Shahpura

In 1615, when Amar Singh of Mewar submitted to the Mughals, while the heir apparent Karan Singh received a high Mansabdari, his brother Bhim Singh received the title of Raja and an estate. In Khurram's fight with his father, Bhim Singh sided Khurram and was killed. When Khurram ascended the throne as Shah Jehan, he handed over Bhim Singh's estate to his son Rai Singh who induced his cousin Sujan Singh to go to Delhi. Sujan Singh was granted the estate of Phulia in Ajmer in 1629. He would make Shahpura, a village under his control his seat. The village was named after it's founder Sihaji, a son of Maharana Udai Singh. Other version notes that Shahpura was named after Shah Jehan in 1631. He would merge his father's Kherar Pargana and Phulia to carve his own estate - he would act as a vassal of Mewar ruling Kherar and Kachhola and as a Mughal vassal ruling Phulia. The same arrangement would continue even into the British days. He would be present with the full military contingent in person for Mewar's battles and during the Dusshera celebrations in Mewar. As early as 1654, terms ruptured between the Mughals and Mewar when an army was sent on Chittor for repairing the forts in the area without intimating the Mughals. Taking advantage of the Mughal civil war, Mewar retaliated and took back Mandal, Banera, Shahpura and Jahazpur. Sujan Singh, on the other hand, died fighting for Shah Jehan in Malwa during the wars with Aurangzeb. Aurangzeb on accession confiscated Phulia but Sujan Singh's younger son Daulat Singh petitioned him and got the estates back. On the other hand, because of Maharana Raj Singh's rebellion, Shahpura was practically independent from Mewar. In 1675, Shahpura received the right to mint coins. Marwar and Jaipur petitioned the Mughals during the reign of Ummed Singh who was ordered to dilute the silver content in his coins.