History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c64.s10.22

v4.c64.s10.22

In provoking a war with Shambhuji by thus openly siding with Aurangzib, the Viceroy was backing the wrong horse, as Manucci pointed out to him: (“This war could not be of any benefit to the Portuguese, seeing that the Mughal would never be content to leave the Portuguese to themselves after he had destroyed Shambhuji," Storia, ii. 261.) The English at Surat were of the same opinion: "The Portuguese . . . . in stirring against the Rajah did it hastily; and such actions end commonly in repentance, shame and loss, or else in worse, despair and vexation." [Surat to Karwar, 22 Aug. 1684, Vol. 91.]