The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c10.240

c10.240

In A.D. 1628 war broke out on account of Khán Jahán Lodi, the Mughal governor of the Dakhan, who was suspected by Shah Jahan and took refuge in Baglan. The Deshmukhs refused to surrender him to the Mughals, and drove back their forces; but Khan Jahan was at last obliged to fly, and was afterwards overtaken and killed. In A.D. 1631 Mortiza Nizam Shah was killed by the son of Malik Ambar, and Daulatabad was taken by the Mughals in A.D. 1633. Shahji Bhonsla, the father of Shivaji, set up another king, and overran the country south of the Chandod range and as far east as Ahmadnagar; in A.D. 1634 he drove back the Mughals from Purenda and forced them to retire to Burhanpur, but fresh forces were sent, and in A.D. 1637 he came to terms and surrendered the Nizam Shah prince, and thus the kingdom of Ahmadnagar was extinguished.