The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.66

v3.c29.66

These victories were due no less to the skill with which the Portuguese exploited the corruption and dissensions of their enemies than to their valour and discipline. At Chaul most of Murtazā’s nobles supplied the Portuguese not only with intelligence, but with provisions, and, despite the leniency with which such treachery was ordinarily regarded in the Deccan, even the foolish Murtazā was constrained to banish the highly respected Injū Sayyids. At Goa there were instances not only of information being sold to the Portuguese, but of a conspiracy headed by Nūrī Khān, commanding the army of Bījāpur, to assassinate ‘Alī ‘Ādil Shāh.