The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c18.16

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With his country stripped bare of the necessities of life, and almost completely surrounded by hostile forces, the king of Ahmadnagar repented of his support to the rebel Khān Jahān, whose help against the Mughuls during the last year had been almost negligible. Khān Jahān and Daryā Khān with their followers were turned out and decided to pass through Mālwā to the Punjab, hoping to find allies among the disaffected Afghāns on the frontier who would support their insurrection. Shāh Jahān, who was at Burhānpur in close touch with the operations, and able to draw supplies from tracts in northern India untouched by the famine, had foreseen this and detached forces to catch them. The fugitives arrived in central India hotly pursued and resisted by the local garrisons. They hoped to find aid and refuge in Bundelkhand where they had been assisted on their flight from Āgra. Bikramājīt Singh had, however, learned that his previous assistance to them had brought the royal censure on his father Jujhār Singh. To atone for this, he attacked the rear-guard and killed Daryā Khān and his son with many of their followers early in January, 1631. Khān Jahān escaped but was again worsted in a sharp fight and finally brought to bay and killed at Sihonda.¹