The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.174

v4.c16.174

Salīm, hearing that his father was returning from the Deccan, raised additional troops and conferred titles and assignments on his principal followers. Akbar, who reached Āgra on 23 August, hesitated to take the field against his son, and negotiations were opened; but Salīm’s demands were so extravagant that they could not be granted, and he advanced from Allahābād towards Āgra with thirty or forty thousand horse, plundering the country on his way. Akbar contented himself with conciliatory messages and mild remonstrances, and though his weakness was condemned by his courtiers, who trembled for their own safety, his policy was so far successful that Salīm retired to Allahābād, and was rewarded with a *farmān* appointing him viceroy of Bengal and Orissa, with almost independent powers, but Salīm persisted in refusing to leave the vicinity of the capital, and declined the appointment, at the same time insulting his father by sending to him specimens of the coins which he had struck in his own name at Allahābād.