The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.110

v3.c29.110

In 1594 Ismā‘īl, the elder brother of Ibrāhīm II, rose in rebellion, and Burhān, who had assembled an army of Foreigners to attack the Portuguese, marched to his aid, but Ismā‘īl was defeated and slain before Burhān had advanced beyond Parenda, and the army of Bījāpur, freed from its preoccupation with the rebel, attacked him and once more defeated him. He was in weak health, and this fresh disaster threw him into a state of nervous irritability. He designated as his heir his elder son, Ibrāhīm, whose mother had been an African, on which account his younger brother, Ismā‘īl, had been preferred to him. Ismā‘īl was still attached to the Mahdavī faith and the Deccani faction, and when his father put him to death for these offences the Deccanis with the army in the field suspected the Foreigners of complicity in the crime, and began to devise a fresh massacre of their opponents, but the Foreigners left the army and joined the king, who had already reached Ahmadnagar. Ikhlās Khān led the Deccanis back to the capital with the object of dethroning Burhān, but the king attacked him and drove him back to Parenda. The exertion and the heat were too much for a frame enfeebled by excess, disease, and mental anxiety, and on April 28, 1595, Burhān died.