The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c17.84

v4.c17.84

In political affairs Jahāngīr was simple and straightforward with no depth of insight and no cunning. His rebellion as prince was due to bad advisers rather than to ambition. He continued the operations against Mewār because his father had planned them, and perhaps because he had failed as prince to advance them. He even hoped when the first expedition was planned to follow it up by a conquest of Transoxiana, but was never able to venture on that project. When Shāh Jahān was sent on the Deccan campaign the emperor's hopes were that after his son had subdued the country and captured its forts "he will bring with the ambassadors such an offering from the Deccan as no other king of this age has received". To enlist the aid of the king of Bījāpur he offered to him any territory of the Golconda and Ahmadnagar rulers which he could conquer. Over the taking of Kāngra fort he rejoiced, not because of its value, but because no other invaders for centuries had been able to subdue it.