the Rathore clansmen, captured the northern portions of Nagaur and founded a new city called Bikaner. Another son named Rao Duda captured Merta lying to the east of Nagaur—the Sultanate of Nagaur was now shrunk to the main town and a few surrounding villages. The policy of the sultans was to maintain independence by either paying tribute to the head of the Rathore clan or to the Lodis of Delhi. In 1513 Nagaur was defeated and compelled to pay tribute—subsequently Lunkaran protected Nagaur, as his vassal state, from an attack by his own kinsman Rao Ganga of Jodhpur. The territory of the Sultanate had now shrunk to just the town of Nagaur. In Nagaur though, the powerless dynasty of the Khokhar was formally ended and an Afghan army under Sher Shah Suri was left in control of the fort and town. This force was ousted by the Mughals under Akbar in 1562. Akbar also captured the fief of Merta—the Rathore ruler of Merta, the Jaimal took up service with the Rana of Chittor and died defending that fort from Akbar in 1569. Akbar's campaign in Rajputana had some similarity with Sher Shah Suri's in that he made alliances with the smaller Rajput states like Bikaner and Amber and used them against the bigger states. Nagaur remained under Mughal control, but was actually administered by one of the nearby Rajput rulers. In the time of Shahjahan the heir of the Jodhpur throne, Amar Singh Rathore was disinherited by his father and was granted Nagaur as compensation by the Mughal Emperor. Many of the buildings in the town date from this period. During Aurangzeb's war against the Rathores in 1679, the headship of the clan was given to Indra Singh (grandson of Amar Singh Rathore) of Nagaur—but he was overthrown by Jaswant Singh's son Ajit Singh and his general Durgadas Rathore who permanently annexed Nagaur to the Kingdom of Jodhpur but it was given back to Indra Singh's son Mokham Singh. In 1755 Jayappaji Rao Scindia (King of Gawalior) attacked on Nagaur fort. He was having huge army and defeated all state which comes in his way. He halted his army at Tausar () from Nagaur, near a pond. He surrounded the Nagaur fort and stopped food and ration. Maharaja Vijay Singh sent proposal of treaty but Jayappa Sindhia not accepted it. Vijay Singh announced in Darbaar that it's a difficult time