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===Jat rebellion===
[[File:Gate of the Tomb of Akbar at Sikandra, Agra, India, 1795.jpg|thumb|The tomb of [[Akbar]] was pillaged by Jat rebels during the reign of Aurangzeb.]]

In 1669, [[Hindu Jats]] began to organise a rebellion that is believed to have been caused by the re-imposition of ''jizya'' and destruction of Hindu temples in Mathura.{{sfn|Avari|2013|p=131|ps=: Crisis arose in the north among the Jat agriculturists dissatisfied with punitive imperial taxation ... The first to rebel against the Mughals were the Hindu Jats.}}<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_Indian_People/ag4BAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22In%201669%20the%20demolition%20of%20Hindu%20temples%20and%20building%20of%20mosques%20in%20Mathura%20led%20to%20a%20Jat%20uprising%20under%20Gokla%22 The History of Indian people by Damodar P Singhal pg 196] Quote: "In 1669 the demolition of Hindu temples and building of mosques in Mathura led to a Jat uprising under Gokla"</ref> The Jats were led by [[Gokula]], a rebel landholder from [[Tilpat]]. By the year 1670 20,000 Jat rebels were quelled and the Mughal Army took control of Tilpat, Gokula's personal fortune amounted to 93,000 gold coins and hundreds of thousands of silver coins.<ref>{{cite book|title=Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals Part – II|author=Chandra, S.|date=2005|publisher=Har-Anand Publications|isbn=978-81-241-1066-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Rm9MC4DDrcC|page=290|access-date=3 October 2014}}</ref>

Gokula was caught and executed. But the Jats once again attempted rebellion. [[Raja Ram Jat]], in order to avenge his father Gokula's death, plundered Akbar's tomb of its gold, silver and fine carpets, opened Akbar's grave and dragged his bones and burned them in retaliation.<ref>Vīrasiṃha, 2006, [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8188629529 "The Jats: Their Role & Contribution to the Socio-economic Life and Polity of North & North-west India, Volume 2"], Delhi: Originals , pp. 100–102.</ref><ref>Edward James Rap;son, Sir Wolseley Haig and Sir Richard, 1937, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yoI8AAAAIAAJ "The Cambridge History of India"], Cambridge University Press, Volume 4, pp. 305.</ref><ref>Waldemar Hansen, 1986, [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=812080225X "The Peacock Throne: The Drama of Mogul India"], p. 454.</ref><ref>Reddy, 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0070604479 "General Studies History for UPSC"], [[Tata McGraw-Hill]], p. B-46.</ref><ref>Catherine Ella Blanshard Asher, 1992, [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521267285 "Architecture of Mughal India – Part 1"], Cambridge university Press, Vol. 4, p. 108.</ref> Jats also shot off the tops of the minarets on the gateway to Akbar's Tomb and melted down two silver doors from the [[Taj Mahal]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Peck |first=Lucy |year=2008 |title=Agra: The Architectural Heritage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtFbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 |publisher=Roli Books |isbn=978-81-7436-942-0}}</ref><ref>Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Leslie Haden Guest, 1937, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvkqAAAAIAAJ The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man], Vol. 2, p. 510</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Havell |first=Ernest Binfield |author-link=Ernest Binfield Havell |year=1904 |title=A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmgLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA75 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company |page=75}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Penfield |first=Frederic Courtland |author-link=Frederic Courtland Penfield |year=1907 |title=East to Suez Ceylon, India, China, and Japan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7X9Q_rOFzZIC&pg=PA179 |page=179}}</ref> Aurangzeb appointed Mohammad Bidar Bakht as commander to crush the Jat rebellion. On 4 July 1688, Raja Ram Jat was captured and beheaded. His head was sent to Aurangzeb as proof of his beheading.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.48871/2015.48871.Maasir---I---Alamgiri#page/n199/mode/2up/search/ellora | title=Maasir – I – Alamgiri| year=1947}}</ref>

After Aurangeb's death, Jats under [[Badan Singh]] established their independent state of [[Bharatpur State|Bharatpur]].

Due to the Jat rebellion, the temples of [[Pushtimarg]], [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism|Gaudiya]], and [[Radhavallabha|Radha vallabh]] Vaishnavs in Braj were abandoned and their icons were taken to different regions or into hiding.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Saha |first=Shandip |year=2004 |title=Creating a Community of Grace: A History of the Puṣṭi Mārga in Northern and Western India |publisher=University of Ottawa |pages=89, 178}}</ref>