[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.c19.46 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.46 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.46 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.46) Through all these months, the fleet at Lakhau had maintained its ascendancy on water and kept up its touch with Bengal, and when, towards the close of October, the land became dry again, it pushed up large quantities of provisions, under escort, to Garhgāon. Mīr Jumla now resumed the offensive and marched eastwards by way of Solāguri to Tipām, the Āhom raja and his nobles having again fled to the hills of Nāmrup. But the Mughul army to a man refused to enter these hills of pestilence and unknown magical terror. The general himself was seized with fainting fits. Fever and pleurisy supervened, which quickly turned into consumption, and he consented to make peace (December, 1662). The Āhom king agreed to pay an indemnity of 20,000 \*tolas\*¹ of gold, 420,000 \*tolas\*¹ of silver and 110 elephants, to send a daughter to the imperial harem, to cede to the Mughuls all the territory west of the Bharali river north of the Brahmaputra and west of the Kallang river on the south (i.e. more than half the province of Darrang, rich in elephants), and to give hostages. The princess, hostages and first instalment of the indemnity having reached his camp, Mīr Jumla set out on his return from Tipām on 20 January, 1663, a dying man, and died on 10 April before reaching Dacca. His genius had shone with supreme radiance during this campaign. No other general of that age conducted war with so much humanity and justice, or kept his soldiers under such discipline; no other general could have retained to the last the confidence and affection of his subordinates amidst such appalling sufferings and dangers. From the first day of the campaign he shared with the meanest soldier all the privations of the march and siege and brought premature death upon himself by incessant hard labour. - [Previous: v4.c19.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.45) - [Next: v4.c19.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.47) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.46) · Pramāṇa