Shivaji and His Times c5.s2.3

c5.s2.3

The murder of Burhan Nizam Shah (c. Feb. 1632) by his wazir and the Mughal capture of Daulatabad (the new capital) with his successor Husain Nizam Shah in it (17th June 1633), were followed by the final dismemberment of the once glorious Ahmadnagar kingdom. Its local governors declared their independence. Shahji now seized all the Nizam-Shahi territory from Puna and Chakan to the environs of Ahmadnagar and Nasik, and plundered right and left. With Bijapuri assistance he crowned a boy Nizam Shah in Premgarh (renamed Shahgarh) in August 1633, and carried on the government in the name of this puppet for three years,—seizing districts (including North Konkan), enlisting soldiers (especially 12,000 Nizam-Shahi troopers who had been disbanded after the fall of Daulatabad), and raiding the country as far as Bidar and Daulatabad, to the great harassment of the Mughals.