The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.173

v4.c16.173

Akbar’s counsellors had for some time been urging him to return to Āgra, but he had at first refused to leave the Deccan until Ahmadnagar and Asīrgarh had fallen, and after their fall had dallied with the project of conquering the kingdoms of Bījāpur, Golconda and Bīdar. He was aroused from these dreams by the menace of Salīm’s rebellion, which was assuming more serious proportions. Akbar had sent the prince’s school companion, Sharīf, to Allahābād to recall him to a sense of his duty to his father, but Salīm had seduced him from his allegiance and appointed him his minister.