Identifier: cu31924073056727 Title: History of India Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Publisher: London : Grolier Society Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: . Contrasted with theuniversal self-seeking of the Moghul Court, such faith-fulness was rare indeed, and no one honoured it moresincerely than the emperor who had never been disloyalto his standard of duty. Meanwhile Abu-1-Hasan had heard the shouts andgroans, and knew that his hour was come. He wentinto the harem and tried to comfort the women, andthen, asking their pardon for his faults, he bade themfarewell, and taking his seat in the audience-chamberwaited calmly for his unbidden guests. He would notsuffer his dinner-hour to be postponed for such a trifleas the Moghul conquest. When the officers of Au- GOLKONDA TAKEN 163 rangzib appeared, he saluted them as became a king,and spoke to them in choice Persian. He then calledfor his horse and rode with them to Prince Azam, whopresented him to Aurangzib. The Great Moghul treatedMm with grave courtesy, as king to king, for the gal-lantry of his defence of Grolkonda atoned for his manysins of the past. He was then sent a prisoner to Dau-

Text Appearing After Image: FOET OF GOLKOSDA. latabad, where his ally of Bijapur was already a captive,and both their dynasties disappear from history, whileAurangzib appropriated a sum equivalent to aboutseven millions sterling from the royal property of Grol-konda. With the conquest of Golkonda and Bijapur, Au-rangzib considered himseK master of the Deccan. Yetthe direct result of this destruction of the only powersthat made for order and some sort of settled govern-ment in the peninsula was to strengthen the hands of 164 THE EUIN OP AUKAJTGZIB the Marathas. The majority of the Tanquished armiesnaturally joined them, and adopted the calling of theroad. The local officials set themselves up as pettysovereigns, and gave the brigands support, as the partymost likely to promote a golden age of plunder. Thusthe bulk of the population of the two dissolved stateswent to swell the power of Sambhaji and his highland-ers, and the disastrous results of this revolution inDeccan politics were felt for more than a century.

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