The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.27

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Ibrāhīm attributed these defeats to the treachery of his own servants, and put to death without trial seventy Muslim and forty Brāhman officials whom he suspected, so enraging his courtiers and officers that they entered into a conspiracy to depose him and raise to the throne his brother ‘Abdullāh. Asad Khān, who had fallen under suspicion and retired to Belgaum, opened communications with the Portuguese of Goa, Burhān, and Jamshīd, with a view to enlisting their support. Ibrāhīm’s discovery of the plot was followed by a number of ruthless executions, and ‘Abdullāh fled to Goa and was well received by the Portuguese, who prepared to espouse his cause in consideration of the cession of the Konkan, which had been promised to them as the price of their support.