![]() The attack was well received and it took the Mughals seven years to take the fort. But the Marathas did not succumb to this onslaught. By the end of 1681, the Mughal forces had laid siege to Fort Ramsej. It was a disproportionate war in all senses. Mughal contingents in the region numbered about 500,000. He arrived at Aurangabad, the Mughal headquarters in the Deccan and made it his capital. In September 1681, after settling his dispute with the royal house of Mewar, Aurangzeb began his journey to Deccan to kill the relatively young Maratha Empire. Sambhaji provided shelter to the emperor's rebel son Sultan Muhammad Akbar, which angered Aurangzeb. In the first half of 1681, many Mughal contingents were dispatched to lay siege to Maratha forts in present day Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh. Sambhaji led the Marathas for the first nine years of the Deccan Wars.
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