The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.46

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During the past decade, the Mughul cause had achieved remarkable and unbroken success in the northern Konkan through the ability and enterprise of a local commandant named Mu‘tabar Khān, a Sayyid of the Navāit clan. He first distinguished himself by capturing or buying many hill-forts in the Nāsik district, and then descended into the Konkan, where he took Kalyān (April, 1689)