New History of the Marathas v2.c24.36

v2.c24.36

A month after Shahu’s departure from Azam Shah’s camp in Malwa, the contest between the two sons of Aurangzeb was decided on the battlefield of Jajav near Agra on 8th June 1707, where Azam Shah was killed and Shah Alam became Emperor under the title of Bahadur Shah. After his accession Bahadur Shah came to the Deccan during 1708, killed his youngest brother Kam Baksh in a fight near Haidarabad on 3rd January 1709, went back to Delhi and died three years later on 17th February 1712. With these events in view we must here follow Shahu's career to his homeland after leaving Doraha with only a couple of hundred followers and servants.