[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c19.117 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.117 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.117 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.117) Shivājī and his mother were practically discarded by Shāhjī, with the result that Shivājī became his own master at the age of twenty when his guardian Dādājī Kond-dev died (1647). He gained many forts from their hereditary owners or the local officers of Bījāpur, sometimes by force but more often by treachery and sowing dissension; and he was able to do so the more easily because the Poona district, having originally belonged to the fallen Nizām-Shāhī dynasty, was a recent and imperfectly subdued acquisition of Bījāpur and that monarchy at this time entered on a rapid course of decline owing to the prolonged illness of Muhammad ‘Ādil Shāh (1646–56), the succession of minor princes and the rule of selfish regents. - [Previous: v4.c19.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.116) - [Next: v4.c19.118](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.118) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.117) · Pramāṇa