The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c12.33

c12.33

AHMADNAGAR: capital of the Nizám Sháhi dynasty, 32; district, 298 note 2, 514; kingdom, founded (1489); city built (1493-1495) by Malik Ahmad Beheri, 621-622; extent of the kingdom (1500), 622; its king joins a confederacy against Bíjápur and is defeated (1524), 641-642; city, occupied by Bahádur Sháh of Gujarát (1528), 622; king, joins another confederacy and is bought off by Bíjápur (1536), 643; its treaty with the Portuguese (1547), 46; besieged by Ali Adil Sháh and Rámráj of Vijaynagar in 1553 and 1562, 623, 644; the Ahmadnagar princess Chánd Bibi married to Ali Adil Sháh of Bíjápur (1563); its king joins the Musalmán confederacy against Vijaynagar (1564), 623, 644-645; attacks Goa with the king of Bíjápur (1570), 646; hostilities and agreements with Bíjápur (1573), 645; its king joins a confederacy against Bíjápur (1580), 647; Mughal interference (1588), 623; marriage alliance between Ahmadnagar and Bíjápur; invasions of Bíjápur by Burhán Nizám Sháh repelled in 1592 and 1596, 648-649; internal factions, Mughals called in, Chánd Bibi's gallant defence, peace with the Mughals and surrender of Berár (1595), 624, 649; disturbances break out at, and Mughals march against (1596); Chánd Bibi is murdered, the city falls, and the king is taken prisoner (1600); Malik Ambar sets up Mortiza as king, and retakes the city; defeats another Mughal army (1612); is defeated by Mughals and the city surrendered to them (1617), 624; the king is murdered by Malik Ambar's son (1631), 625; 650; Sháhji Bhonsla sets up another king and overruns the country; he drives back the Mughals (1634); he comes to terms and surrenders the prince and the kingdom is extinguished (1637), 625, 650; the town surprised (1657) and sacked (1664) by Shivaji, 625; battle fought between the Marathás and Mughala near; recognition of the Maratha claims of chauth and sardeshmukhi on the district of (1720), 626; fort, gained by the Peshwa (1759); district acquired by the Peshwa (1760), 626, 627; fort given to Sindia and Nána Phadnavis imprisoned in (1797), 628; restored to the Peshwa (1803), 629; district, put under Captain Pottinger (1819), 631.