The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.89

v4.c15.89

This year was marred by another domestic tragedy. Akbar’s maternal uncle Khvāja Mu‘azzam, a violent and irresponsible man, had threatened to murder his wife, and Akbar rode to his house to the east of the Jumna to forestall the crime, only to find that it had already been committed. The murderer was seized, roughly handled, and ducked in the river in the hope that he would drown, but came out alive and was sent to Gwalior, where he presently died insane.