 Durgadas Rathore, who after Aurangzeb's death had freed Jodhpur from the Mughals and successfully installed Prince Ajit Singh to the Marwar throne, did not get along with the latter, left Marwar and took charge of the newly re-acquired district of Rampura for Maharana.Durgadas died at Rampura in 1718, and his funeral rites were performed on the banks of the Shipra where a chhatri (cenotaph) was built to consecrate his memory.This beautiful structure, built in the Rajput style of architecture, houses a statue of Durgadas which crumbled down.