History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c37.s1.9

v3.c37.s1.9

Shah Alam's captivity was relaxed cautiously, little by little, in a very amusing fashion, and he was finally released on 9th May, 1695 and sent to Agra and thence to Multan and afterwards to Afghanistan as viceroy. He had never been brave or proud, and now his spirit was utterly crushed; he lived in a state of abject timidity and intellectual helplessness, deceiving his father by hypocrisy and seeking consolation in the pleasures of the harem. Even his father taunted him with cowardice, though the prince was already a grandfather [Storia, iv. 245, ii. 392; M.A. 341-344, K.K. 397, J. Ind. Hist., ii. 295-306.]