The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.135

v4.c16.135

He was now at the zenith of his power. In one year Kashmīr, Orissa, Sind and Kāthiāwār had been reduced to obedience, and the last vestiges of rebellion had been wiped out in Gujarāt. He was at leisure to pursue fresh conquests, and it was to the Deccan, where Burhān of Ahmadnagar had defied his authority, that his thoughts first turned. Murād, first in Mālwā but now in Gujarāt, had been ordered to seize an opportunity of invading Ahmadnagar, and now more extensive preparations were made. The young prince Dāniyāl was appointed to the nominal command of a great army, with the Khān Khānān and Rāi Singh of Bīkāner as his tutors or advisers; the governors of Delhi and Ajmer were ordered to join him with their contingents, Shāh Rukh Mīrzā and Shāhbāz Khān were sent to raise troops for him in Mālwā, and Mān Singh was directed to invade the Deccan from the east; but the elaborate scheme came to nought. Dāniyāl left Lahore in November, but loitered at Sirhind. He was twenty-two years of age, far too young to command a great army, but old enough to have his own way; and Akbar, incensed by his dilatoriness, recalled him. It was as well that he did, for Murād, who had, not unreasonably, regarded his appointment first to Mālwā and afterwards to Gujarāt as an assurance that he was to receive the chief command of the army of the Deccan, bitterly resented his supersession by his younger brother, and had written to his father a letter in which he announced his intention of rebelling if Dāniyāl were allowed to retain the command.