Mughal Empire Absorbs Bijapur and Golconda

1691

Aurangzeb completed his decades-long conquest of the Deccan sultanates, absorbing Bijapur and Golconda into the Mughal Empire. The empire now stretched from Kabul to Coromandel, its greatest extent. But the victories were Pyrrhic - guerrilla resistance from the Marathas was draining the treasury faster than the conquered diamond mines could replenish it.