1638, the Mughal army in three divisions stormed
the lower fort or Bari, with heavy loss on both
sides.[1] The Rajah with some 500 men retired to
the upper fort and was there blockaded. A month's
close investment reduced him to submission. He
sent his mother and minister to
Baglana annexed.
offer to Aurangzib the keys of
his other eight forts and to beg for himself a post
in the Emperor's service, (15th February). The
overture was accepted; he was created a Commander of Three Thousand and consoled with
an estate in Sultanpur, a district of Khandesh,
north of the Tapti. On 4th June, he evacuated
Mulher; his kingdom was annexed, and its revenue fixed at 4 lakhs for the present. A month
later, his kinsman Rudbá surrendered the fort of
Piplá, 9 miles south of Saler. One hundred and
twenty pieces of artillery, large and small, were seized in the forts.[2]
Bairam Shah's son-in-law, Somdev, ruled over Rámnagar. But as the revenue of this petty
- ↑ Khafi Khan says that a daredevil Mughal officer named Syed Abdul Wahhab Khandeshi, with 4 or 5 Syeds expert in hill climbing, one standard-bearer, one trumpeter and one water-carrier, made a secret march by an unfrequented jungle path for three successive nights and on the fourth day appeared on the ridge of the Bari, and suddenly attacked it with a great noise. Encouraged by his example, the Mughal forces on the plain charged up hill and stormed the Bari.
- ↑ Abdul Hamid, II. 106—109; Khafi Kh. i. 542, 561—564.
