The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.24

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After his final victory over Dārā, Aurangzīb celebrated his grand coronation on 15 June, 1659,¹ in the first month of his second regnal year, at Delhi, with prolonged rejoicings. Thereafter he lived for nearly twenty years at Delhi and Āgra, making only a trip to Kashmīr which kept him away for one year (1663) and an eighteen months' halt at Hasan Abdāl (1674–75) to direct operations against the frontier tribes. Early in 1679 he went to Ajmer to annex Mārwār, and thus became involved for the next two years and a half in the Rājput war, whose strange sequel drew him to the Deccan, there to pass the last quarter century of his life in strenuous but unavailing toil.