The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.30
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.30
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The emperor set himself to take possession of the forts and districts of the fallen kingdoms of Bījāpur and Golconda. Sāgar (the Berad capital), Adonī (the seat of Sīdī Mas‘ūd), Karnūl, Rāichūr, Serā and Bangalore in Mysore, and Bankāpur and Belgaum in Kanara, as well as Wandiwāsh and Conjeveram in the eastern or Madras Carnatic, were gained by his armies, in the course of a year from the fall of Golconda. After his return to Bījāpur, a deadly bubonic plague broke out in the city and camp (November, 1688), which killed about a hundred thousand people, including the emperor’s wife Aurangābādī Mahall, Jasvant’s alleged son Muhammadī Rāj, and many grandees. Fīrūz Jang escaped with the loss of his eyes.