1844.] Political Events in the Car natic, from 1564 to I687. 453 



70. Their resistance was now become serious and formidable; it 

 To extirpate Sham- had been long continued, and under a young and 

 the* Marhattas, 6 and enterprizing leader/ serious consequences might be 

 d^btr Ah^zealo^" ex P ecte( * ^ rom a l° n g er protraction of the war. Some 

 bis generals. suspicions also seem still to have attached to the 



generals employed ; and on consideration of all these circumstances, 

 the emperor appears to have this year determined, with avowed 

 design of rooting out Shambha, t to conduct the operations in person, 

 The Emperor re- r at least to be near enough to correct errors ; 



solves to prosecute . 



the war in person. having previously recalled Khan Jehan, and ap- 

 pointed Mahomed Mauzim again to be governor of Deckan. 



71. Aurungzebe marching from Azmere, followed by a vast army 



A. D. 1682. composed of Hindoo Rajpoots, as well as Maho- 



a second 5 time with a niedans, arrived at Burhanpoor in the beginning 



vast army. f th 1682 and in the 2 5th year of his 



lhe war renewed J ' J 



with vigor. reign, and in a short time arrived at Aurungabad, 



Extent ot the new ° ° ' 



Marhattastateinthis from which ascertained period, we may reckon 



The invasion of his return into Deckan. The war was then com- 



fnTSnueTto W t e he menced with renewed vigor, both against Beejapoor 



final capture ot that an( j the Ganeems, (or infidels as they affected to 



capital and or bol- ' v J 



conda. A. D. 1687. call the Marhattas,) who had in the period of his 

 absence, wrested from Beejapoor not only the whole Concan and the 

 Upper provinces along the Western Ghauts, from Baglana to the 

 Sanore province South, but even made themselves masters of some 

 part of the imperial provinces. Notwithstanding a constant opposition, 

 after various successes, the Mogul armies were at last put in motion 

 both against Beejapoor, (where the king was at that time a minor,) 

 and Golconda. After many fruitless attempts to ward off his unceasing 

 attacks, the king and city of Beejapoor were taken in 1687, and 



* Shambha at first seemed to evince his father's spirit in seizing the reins of government attempt- 

 ed to be wrested from him by a party united by his step-mother Soora Baee, who wished to elevate 

 her son Rama, the same who afterwards stood a long siege in Gingee, but he soon fell from this ele- 

 vation, though in his conference with Aurungzebe he exhibited a portion of the family spirit that 

 has conferred on his name and his tale all the decoration and lustre of the Hindoo drama and 

 romance. 



t It is not improbable but he was particularly provoked against Shambha at this time for re- 

 ceiving his fugitive son, Prince Akbar, who had escaped from Azimeer, and thrown himself on 

 his protection. We find that notice was sent to the European factories in the Golconda territory 

 early in the year 1682, but the English prudently declined any interference. 



3r 



