Background
During the dissensions which followed the death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, Raja Kalyan Singh Bhadauria obtained possession of Dholpur, and his family retained it until 1761, after which it was taken successively by the Jat Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur, by Mirza Najaf Khan in 1775, by Scindia in 1782, and in 1803 by the British. It was restored to Sindhia by the Treaty of Surji Anjangaon, but in consequence of new arrangements was again occupied by the British. Finally, in 1806, the territories of Dholpur, Badi and Rajakhera were handed over to the Maharaj Rana Kirat Singh of Gohad, in exchange for his state of Gohad, which was ceded to Sindhia.
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