Shivaji and His Times c5.s2.4

c5.s2.4

But the imperialists launched huge forces against him in February 1636. The campaign, after much hard riding and fighting, ended next October in the completest defeat of Shahji, who was compelled to surrender to the victors his puppet Nizam Shah and seven of his forts, enter Bijapur service, and transfer his mischievous ambition and disturbing activity to regions far away from Maharashtra proper.