# Aurangzeb takes Golconda
**औरंगज़ेब ने गोलकुंडा जीता**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/golconda-1687/
- Chapter: [The Mughals and their rivals](https://indianepics.online/chapter/mughal.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1687 CE
- Where: Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana (17.38, 78.4)
- Tags: war, political

## Summary

After an eight-month siege the last Deccan sultanate falls to Aurangzeb, carrying the empire close to its greatest extent.

आठ महीने की घेराबंदी के बाद अंतिम दक्कनी सल्तनत औरंगज़ेब के हाथ आई; साम्राज्य अपने अधिकतम विस्तार के निकट पहुँचा।

## Account

Bijapur fell in 1686 and Golconda in 1687. The fort held from early in the year until September, when a gate was opened from within; Abul Hasan Qutb Shah ended his days a prisoner at Daulatabad.

The outline on the map, c. 1700, is the empire after these conquests. It is also the point at which the cost of the Deccan wars, above all against the Marathas, began to tell on the treasury and the army.

## Sources

- Saqi Must'ad Khan, Maasir-i-Alamgiri, tr. Sarkar (1947) — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1426

## Image

Golconda Fort and Hyderabad city. iMahesh, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGolconda_Fort_and_Hyderabad_city.jpg

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