The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.125

v4.c16.125

In May, 1589, Akbar paid his first visit to Kashmīr, but before leaving Lahore availed himself of an opportunity of interfering again in the affairs of the Deccan. Before he left Fathpur Sīkrī Burhān-ud-dīn, the younger brother of Murtazā Nizām Shāh of Ahmadnagar, having rebelled against his brother, had fled from that kingdom and had taken refuge with Akbar, who had received him into his service. Murtazā Nizām Shāh had since been murdered by his son Husain, who succeeded him, but in April, 1589, had been murdered by his nobles, who then raised to the throne Ismā‘īl, the son of Burhān-ud-dīn. Burhān now sought and obtained Akbar’s permission to make an attempt to gain the throne to which his son had been raised, and Akbar offered to aid him, but Burhān declined his assistance lest it should provoke the hostility of his subjects and of the kings of Bījāpur and Golconda. He failed in his first attempt, but a second attempt, in which he was assisted by Rājā ‘Alī Khān of Khāndesh, was more successful. He deposed his son, and ascended the throne of Ahmadnagar as Burhān Nizām Shāh II.¹