The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.104

v3.c29.104

The advancement of Ismā'īl to the throne aroused his father, Burhān, to the assertion of his rights, and he sought and obtained Akbar's permission to make an attempt to gain his throne. Akbar indeed pressed upon him, to serve his own ends, the co-operation of an imperial army, but Burhān wisely declined assistance which would render him odious in the eyes of his subjects and of the other kings in the Deccan and would involve him in humiliating obligations. He believed that his subjects longed for his return, and that he had only to appear in order to be acclaimed, but a premature invasion of Berar with an insufficient force ended in his defeat and his flight into Khāndesh. Here Raja 'Alī Khān assembled his army to assist him, and secured the co-operation of Ibrāhīm II, who sent an army under Dilāvar Khān to invade Ahmadnagar from the south. Jamāl Khān first faced this danger and, having inflicted a crushing defeat on Dilāvar Khān at Dhārāseo, turned northward to meet Raja ‘Alī Khān and Burhān, who had invaded the kingdom from the north.