The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.9

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The Mughul campaign in the first half of 1684 was highly successful in other quarters; many Marāthā forts were taken, their field armies repeatedly defeated, and much of their territory annexed, while many of their captains came over to the imperial side. The sieges of Bījāpur and Golconda, however, relieved the pressure on the Marāthās during 1685–87. Prince Akbar, thoroughly despairing of any success or even safety in India, sailed from Rājapur in February, 1687, and reached the Persian court in January, 1688, after some months' detention by the Sultan of Muscat, who tried to sell him to Aurangzīb.