The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.21

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This news brought Āsaf Jāh to Burhānpur, where he halted for two months, trying to reason with his son. Many of the rebel's adherents took this opportunity to come over to the Nizām's side. Nāsir Jang, unable to face his father in the field, sought asylum at the tomb of Shāh Burhān-ud-dīn. The Nizām crossed the Tāptī on 16 January, 1741, and after a friendly meeting with the new Peshwā Bālājī Rāo on the bank of the Purnā (at 'Ādilābād), crossed the Kāsār pass, and reached Aurangābād in March. Nāsir Jang, in fear of his father, fled to Mulher fort (in Bāglān), but while the Nizām's forces were dispersed in cantonments for the rains, the rebel returned to Aurangābād at the head of 7000 horse, on 2 August, 1741. Āsaf Jāh boldly rode out of the city with his small escort but strong artillery and encamped at the 'Īdgāh outside. In the next day's battle, most of the rebel captains fled away, Nāsir Jang was taken prisoner, and his chief counsellor Shāh Nawāz Khān (the future author of *Maāsir-ulumarā*) went into hiding for five years.