[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.c19.230 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.230 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.230 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.230](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.230) These operations failed of their principal object, and Dilīr Khān maintained the siege of Bījāpur with vigour. Mas‘ūd Khān begged Shivājī to relieve the city and he set out for Bījāpur, but on the way learnt that his son Shambhūjī had fled from Panhālā, where he was under restraint owing to his dissolute conduct which had culminated in an attempt to violate the wife of a Brāhman. He escaped to Dilīr Khān, who welcomed him with honour, his object being to widen the breach between father and son and to divide the Marāthās. The Marāthā army continued its march to Bījāpur, while Shivājī himself returned to devise a scheme for recalling his son. This, however, was no easy task, for Dilīr Khān flattered the youth's vanity by recognising him as Rājā of the Marāthās and captured for him one of his father's fortresses; and the Marāthā army sustained a severe defeat near Bījāpur. In the north, however, Moro Pant Peshwā overran and ravaged Khāndesh, and cut off Dilīr Khān's supplies, so that he was obliged, at the end of the rainy season, to raise the siege of the city. He was resolved, however, to chastise the kingdom, and plundered and ravaged it till the Marāthā troops in the northern Carnatic attacked and drove him northwards. Aurangzīb, disapproving of Dilīr Khān's Marāthā policy, ordered him to send Shambhūjī as a prisoner to Delhi, but he connived at the young man's escape and Shambhūjī rejoined and was reconciled to his father, who however confined him to Panhālā. At the same time Sultān Mu‘azzam was recalled from the Deccan and Bahādur Khān was reinstated as viceroy. - [Previous: v4.c19.229](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.229) - [Next: v4.c19.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.231) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.230](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.230) · Pramāṇa