History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c72.s2.6

v5.c72.s2.6

Meantime, nearer the imperial head-quarters, over the broad and strategically important tract from Bidar to Bijapur and from Raichur to Malkhed, the activities of the hardy aboriginal tribe of Berads led by the genius of their chief Pidia Nayak, had become so serious that a large army under a first-rate general had to be posted at Sagar (72 miles east of Bijapur) from June 1691 to December 1692.