independent charge, with its separate viceroy and capital, (November, 1634). Early in the
next year a Mughal force from Daulatabad gave
Shahji a long chase, but returned to Ahmadnagar
without being able to catch the swift Maratha.
The Emperor himself arrived at Daulatabad to
direct the operations (21st February, 1636.)[1]
Three large armies, totalling 50,000 men, were
held ready to be launched upon Bijapur and
Golkonda if they did not submit, while a fourth,
eight thousand strong, under Shaista Khan, was
despatched to capture the Nizam Shahi forts in
the north-west, and to take possession of the
Junnar and Nasik districts.[2]
The news of this immense armament cowed down Abdullah,Golkonda submits. the king of Golkonda, and without striking a blow in defence of his independence he agreed to become a vassal of the Mughals. With an abjectness shameful in a crowned head, he promised an annual tribute, coined gold and silver pieces at his capital in the name of Shah Jahan, and caused the Mughal Emperor to be proclaimed from the pulpit as
