[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912) › v1.c19.22 # History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c19.22 History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c19.22 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c19.22) Immediately there was the greatest rejoicing in the Deccani kingdoms. Here were the Mughals abandoning their late conquests as untenable! In vain did Aurangzib try to put a bold face on the matter; in vain did he write to Qutb Shah: "The retreat of my army was due to a wish to reassure the people of Bijapur who were frightened by its presence and had abandoned the cultivation of their lands, and also because I had got news that my Begam's illness had increased."† The plea was too palpably false to be believed. While his vanquished enemies were raising their heads in the South, and a storm was brewing against him in the North, Aurangzib received one of the severest domestic shocks: the day after leaving Bidar‡ he learnt that his principal wife and the mother of three of his sons had died at Aurangabad on the 8th of the month. - [Previous: v1.c19.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c19.21) - [Next: v1.c19.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c19.23) - [Up: v1.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c19.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1912.v1.c19.22) · Pramāṇa