Ali Adil Shah II
sultan of Bijapur
Ali Adil Shah II (Urdu: علی عادل شاه دوم, romanized: ʿAlī ʿĀdil Shāh; died 24 November 1672) was the 8th Sultan of Bijapur. He succeeded to the throne of Bijapur through the efforts of the Prime Minister Khan Muhammad and the Queen, Badi Sahiba, sister of Qutb Shah of Golkonda on the death of Mohammed Adil Shah of Bijapur on 4 November 1656.
His accession signaled disasters to the Kingdom and his reign marked the decline of the Bijapur Kingdom.
Reign
Shah Jahan, anxious to annex Bijapur to his empire, found a pretext in the legitimacy of Ali's parents. On Aurangzeb’s plea, Shah Jahan sanctioned the invasion of Bijapur and gave him a free hand to deal with the situation. This sanction of such a war was wholly unrighteous. Bijapur was not a vassal state of the Mughals, but an independent and equal ally of the Mughal Emperor, and the latter had no lawful right to confirm or question the succession to the Bijapur Sultanate. However, Aurangzeb had to raise the siege and rush north for the war of succession to the Mughal throne.
With Muhammad's death and Ali's accession, disorder had begun in the Karnataka. The Nayaks tried to recover their former lands.
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