The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.48

v4.c19.48

The Mughuls continued to hold his acquisitions in Assam for four years after his retreat. But in 1667, the vigorous Āhom king Chakradhvaj renewed the war and recovered all the lost territory, and even captured Gauhātī. Thus, the imperial frontier was pushed back to the Monās river. A desultory war continued for nine years; but the Mughul forces were hopelessly small, they had lost their supremacy on water, and their general Rām Singh (Rājā of Amber) had not his heart in the work, as he had been transferred to that pestilential province as a punishment for his connivance at the escape of Shivājī from Āgra in 1666. After staying for some years at Rāngāmātī doing nothing, he was recalled to court in 1676. In 1679, the Mughuls, taking advantage of the weakness of the Āhom kings and dissensions among their nobles, recovered Gauhātī by bribery, only to lose it two years afterwards to the new and war-like king Gadādhar Singh. Thus, Kāmrūp was finally lost to the empire. During Mīr Jumla's investment in Garhgāon, Cooch Behār had been recovered by its raja. But when Shāysta Khān came to Bengal as governor, the raja made his peace (1664) by offering submission and half a million rupees. Later in the century, the Mughuls annexed the southern and eastern portions of the kingdom, including the present districts of Rangpur and western Kāmrūp.