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orders from Shah
Jahan to stop the siege.
Therefore, a treaty
was signed between
the two by which
Golconda accepted
the suzerainty of the
Mughal emperor.
Mughal emperor and
agreed to pay rupees
one and a half crores
to the Mughals. The
forts of Bidar and
Kalyani also remained
with the Mughals.
Thus, the Deccan
policy of the Mughals
The attempt of the
during the reign of
Mughals to capture
Shah Jahan remained
Bijapur in 1631 A.D.,
quite successful.
however,
failed.
The Mughals again Aurangzeb’s Deccan
attacked it in 1636 A.D. Policy:
and forced it to accept
Aurangzeb’s
policy
their
suzerainty.
towards the Deccan
Shah Jahan ordered
had political as well
Aurangzeb to attack
as religious purpose.
Bijapur.
Aurangzeb
The extension of
besieged the fort of
the
empire
was
Bijapur but before
one
purpose
of
he could capture it,
Aurangzeb. Probably
he received orders
it is believed that
of Shah Jahan to
extinction of the
stop the siege. A
states of Bijapur and
treaty was, therefore,
Golconda was a prior
signed
between
necessity for the
the two by which
destruction of the
Bijapur
accepted
power of the Marathas
the suzerainty of the
in the Deccan. Besides
this political motive,
he desired to annex
these states because
their rulers were Shias.
Bijapur had failed to
fulfill the terms of the
treaty of 1657 A.D. The
political situation was
also very vulnerable
because Adil Shah
died in 1672 A.D.
and was succeeded
by his four-year son,
Sikandar Adil Shah.
The Mughals took
advantage of it and
attacked Bijapur in
1676 A.D. but with no
results till Aurangzeb
himself reached the
Deccan. Bijapur was
finally annexed to the
Mughal Empire and
so was Golconda.
The Deccan policy of
the Mughals reached
the perfection of its
success during the
rule of Aurangzeb.