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The town was destroyed in a 1570-71 siege by the Nizam Shahi Sultan of Ahmadnagar, but a treaty was concluded which lifted the siege, and the town was rebuilt and surrounded by walls and bastions.
Murtaza Shah III, was a Nizam Shahi boy prince who in the year 1635 became the nominal Sultan of Ahmadnagar, he was subjected to the authority of the Maratha leader Shahaji.
But soon, Shahaji with the assistance of Bijapur, placed an infant scion of the Nizam Shahi dynasty, Murtaza on the throne and he became the regent.
Lakhuji Jadhav (lived in the 16th century), a Nizam Shahi jagirdar, father-in-law of Shahaji, maternal grandfather of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire in India