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Siege of Daulatabad

VictorMughal armyMahabat Khan
1633vs
Nizam Shahi garrison, with Shahaji and Bijapur trying to relieve itFath Khan, son of Malik Ambar

The rock fort of Devagiri, which had been the Yadava capital, was the last stronghold of the Nizam Shahi kingdom. Mahabat Khan took it in 1633 after a three-month siege, while Shahaji Bhonsle fought outside to save it.

Date: March–June 1633Where: Daulatabad (Devagiri) fort, near Aurangabad, MaharashtraType: Siege
Photo: Vinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0
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MLA

“Siege of Daulatabad.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/siege-of-daulatabad-1633/. Accessed .

APA

Hindu History. (2026). Siege of Daulatabad. Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/siege-of-daulatabad-1633/

Result

Fath Khan surrendered the fort and the boy king Husain Nizam Shah III; the Nizam Shahi capital passed to the Mughals.

01A kingdom in pieces

After Malik Ambar’s death in 1626 the Ahmednagar kingdom fell apart. His son Fath Khan murdered the king Murtaza Nizam Shah II in 1631, put a child on the throne and offered to submit to the Mughals. Then he wavered and called in Bijapur. Shah Jahan sent Mahabat Khan to finish the matter. Daulatabad, the fort on a sheer-scarped rock that had been Devagiri of the Yadava kings, was the prize.

02The fort surrenders

Mahabat Khan invested the fort in March 1633 and took the outer walls by mining. Outside, the Bijapur army and Shahaji Bhonsle harried his lines and tried to get food into the fort. They failed. In June, with the garrison starving, Fath Khan surrendered. The child king Husain Nizam Shah III was sent to imprisonment in Gwalior, and Fath Khan took Mughal service. Shahaji did not give up: he crowned another Nizam Shahi prince and fought on until 1636.

Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri
Dynasty · c. 1187–1317 CESeuna Yadavas of DevagiriThe Seunas claimed descent from the Yadu line of Shri Krishna. Bhillama V built Devagiri around 1187, and his heirs ruled the first great Marathi-speaking kingdom until Alauddin Khalji’s armies broke it.Read →
Why it matters

Daulatabad ended the Nizam Shahi kingdom in all but name; its lands were divided between the Mughals and Bijapur in 1636.

Places 1

Devagiri (Daulatabad) FortRuined
Cholas and the Southern Seas

Devagiri (Daulatabad) Fort

The capital of the Yadavas of Devagiri, a conical hill scarped smooth all round so that no one could climb it. Its fall to Alauddin Khalji’s armies between 1296 and 1318 opened the Deccan to the Delhi Sultanate.

Places near the battlefield 2

Kailasa Temple, Ellora (Cave 16)Standing
The Age of Great Kingdoms

Kailasa Temple, Ellora (Cave 16)

A whole temple, with its shrine, Nandi mandapa, towers and elephants, carved downward out of a single basalt hill under the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I. Nothing was built; everything that is not temple was cut away.

Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga, VerulRebuilt
Maratha ascendancy and the Sikh empire

Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga, Verul

The twelfth Jyotirlinga, a red-stone temple in the village of Verul, a short walk from the Ellora caves. Destroyed in the wars of the Sultanate and Mughal centuries, it was raised again by Shivaji’s grandfather and then by Ahilyabai Holkar.