A History of Agriculture in India v2.c86.s2.5
A History of Agriculture in India v2.c86.s2.5
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His return to the Deccan from Delhi was followed by a series of triumphs. Surat was again sacked (1671), and the Maratha swarms spread southerly past Madras to Tanjore, levying blackmail wherever they went. In June 1674, he was enthroned at Raigarh. As he was meditating still greater aggrandizement, a sudden illness put an end to his career in 1680, when he was not quite fifty-three years of age.