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SEPTEMBER, 1021) HISTORY OF THE NIZAM SHAHI KINGS OF AHMADNAGAR
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THE HISTORY OF THE NIZAM SHAHI KINGS OF AHMADNAGAR. BY LIEUT.-COLONEL T. W. HAIG, C.S.I., C.M.G., C.B.E.
(Continued from p. 234.) LXXIX.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE INVASION OF BERAR BY MURTAZA NIZAM SHAH, AND OF THE CAPTURE OF THE WRETCH, TUFIL KHAN, IN CONSEQUENCE
OF HIS BREACH OF FAITH AND TREACHERY TO HIS MASTER. A.D. 1572. 'Ali Adil Shah was ever watching for an opportunity to break his engagements, and now that he heard that the army of Ahmadnagar was demoralized, he entered into an offensive alliance with Tufal Khân against Ahmadnagar and thus violated his treaty of peace with Murtaza Nizam Shah.189
When informers brought the news of the treaty between Ali Adil Shah and Tufal Khân to Changiz Khân, Changiz Khân, whose ability in negotiations was unrivalled, advised the king that an envoy should be sent to Tufal Khân to deter him from displaying hostility to Ahmadnagar, to advise him to submit to Murtaza Nizâm Shâh and to refrain from meeting 'Ali `Adil Shâh or from entering into an alliance with him. In accordance with this advice, the king sent Maulânâ Şadr as an envoy to Tufal Khân to offer him the advice suggested, but as Tufal Khân had concluded a treaty with 'Ali `Adu Shah before the envoy's arrival, he would not see Maulana şadr, nor hear of friendship with Ahmad. nagar. It had been decreed by God that the country of Berar was to fall into the hands of the Sultan of Ahmadnagar, and that Malik 'Tufal Khân, who had been guilty of rebellion against his lord, should fall, and, his evil disposition having in these days been diverted from its usual course, he discontinued the friendly letter which had for years passed between the 'Imad Shahi kings and the Sultans of Ahmadnagar and opened a friendly correspondence with 'Ali Adil Shah of Bijâpar and raised the standard of rebellion. The natural result of his conduct was his ruin and the ruin of his family and the loss of Berar and all its fortresses, which had formerly fallen into his hands.
When Tufal Khan in his pride refused even to receive the envoy, Murtaza Nizâm Shah consulted with Ohangiz Khan and his other officers of state as to the best means of dealing with the enemy. Both the king and his advisers agreed that the best course was to meet and crush 'Ali Adil Shah before he could join Tufâl Khân; and the king marched with a large army towards Bijapur. The army marched with great celerity towards Bijapur and laid the whole of the enemy's country waste. Having so devastated the country that no sign of habitation remained, the army then turned towards Ausa and encamped at the village of Rui.
199 Firishta (ii. 263) gives a different account of the events which preceded the conquest of Berar by Murtard Nizam Shah. 'Al 'Adil Shah had apparently had an understanding with former ministers of the Ahmadnagar State, and especially with Shah Haidar, brother of ShAh Abd-l-Hasan and Jamal-ud-din Husain Inju, who had at one time been in the service of Bijapur. With Changiz Khan, the newly appointed prahvi, who had given ovidence, at the siege of Chaul, of his incorruptibility, he seems to have had no under. standing, and he feared his energy and honesty of purpose. He therefore opened negotiations with Ibra. him Qutb Shah with a view to arranging a meeting and entering into an alliance with him. Changiz Khan, in order to prevent this alliance, persuaded Murtaza Nisam ShAh to march towards Bijapur. 'Ali 'Adil ShAh marched to meet him but Changiz Khan averted hostilities and arranged a friendly meeting between the two kings, at which they entered into a treaty. Murtaza Nigam ShAh was to be free to annex both Berar and Bidar, while 'Alt 'Adil ShAh was to annex an equivalent from the remnants of the Vijayanagar kingdom. The two kinga then separated and Murtaş& Nigam Shah set out, in 1672, to annex Berar.
