[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.c19.225 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.225 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.225 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.225](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.225) Early in 1677 Shivājī reached Golconda with 30,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry. His intrigues there were successful. The two Brāhmans fell in with his scheme and Shivājī personally convinced Abu-’l-Hasan Qutb Shāh that Golconda’s salvation lay in an alliance with the Marāthā power. In the secret treaty which was executed Bījāpur had a place. Her possessions in the Carnatic were indeed to be divided between the Marāthās and Golconda, but if she dismissed ‘Abdul-Karīm Khān from the regency and appointed Venkanna, the brother of Mādanna, she was to be admitted as a member of the confederacy. It does not seem to have occurred to Abu-’l-Hasan that this confederacy was to be a purely Hindu alliance, in which two puppet Muslim kings were to count for naught. Shivājī left Golconda for the Carnatic, handsomely supplied with money and with a train of artillery, in March. After passing Madras he persuaded the brothers, who held Gingee, to surrender that strong fortress to him, appointed one of his own officers to command the fort, and established throughout the surrounding country his own system of administration. The Tiruvannamalai district, which was held for the king of Bījāpur, and Vellore and three other fortresses were captured. All Shāhjī’s rich assignments in the Carnatic were occupied by Shivājī, and in the rest of the possessions of Bījāpur in the Carnatic he followed his usual system of demanding \*chauth\* and \*sardeshmukhī\* and plundering the country indiscriminately if they were withheld. - [Previous: v4.c19.224](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.224) - [Next: v4.c19.226](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.226) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Gingee](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.gingee) - [Golconda](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.golconda) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.225](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.225) · Pramāṇa