History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c66.s3.3

v4.c66.s3.3

Madanna continued the same foreign policy with a necessary variation. There was no estrangement from the Adil-Shahi Government, but that Court was now the scene of chaos, faction-fights and changes of regency, so that co-operation by that weak and unsteady State was practically impossible and would have been useless. Madanna, therefore, built his hopes of national defence chiefly on a close alliance with the ever-victorious Maratha king. In 1677 he had given Shivaji a more than royal welcome on his visit to Haidarabad and promised him a regular subsidy of one lakh of hun for the defence of Golkonda. After Shivaji's death the alliance had been renewed with his successor and the subsidy continued.