[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.c19.216 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.216 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.216 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.216](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.216) In June, 1672, ‘Alī ‘Ādil Shāh II was smitten with paralysis but lingered until 4 December, when he died and was succeeded by his son Sikandar ‘Ādil Shāh, then in his fifth year. Before his death arrangements for the administration of his kingdom during his son’s minority had been completed. Khavāss Khān, son of the traitor Khān Muhammad, was to hold the regency. ‘Abdul-Muhammad Khān was to command at Gulbarga and in the districts contiguous with the imperial dominions, ‘Abdul-Karīm Buhlūl Khān was to hold Mīrāj, Panhālā, and the Konkan, and Muzaffar Khān was to command in the Carnatic. This arrangement came into force at Muhammad ‘Ādil Shāh’s death, but each of the four nobles who thus divided the management of affairs was more intent on his own aggrandisement and on the destruction of his rivals than on the protection of the interests of the kingdom, and Shivājī was not slow to take advantage of their dissensions. In March, 1673, he assembled a large force at Vishalgarh, recaptured Panhālā, and sacked the wealthy town of Hublī, where his troops took a greater amount of booty than they had ever before taken from a single town. The English factory was plundered with the rest of the town. The Marāthā fleet captured Kārwār and Ankola, and Shivājī, in order that he might be free to prosecute the war without interruption, made overtures to Bahādur Khān, governor of the Deccan, suggesting submission to and reconciliation with the emperor. Bahādur Khān was as amenable as his predecessors and readily undertook to refrain from molesting Shivājī provided that he, on his part, abstained from pillaging the imperial dominions. - [Previous: v4.c19.215](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.215) - [Next: v4.c19.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.217) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.216](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.216) · Pramāṇa