A throne revived by a regent
After the capture of Ahmadnagar in 1600 the Habshi commander Malik Ambar “restored a Nizam Shahi prince, Murtaza II, to a revived throne, and married his daughter to him” — the archive’s Ahmadnagar essay, from the Met’s account. Ferishta, closing his history around 1607, shows the arrangement from inside: Ambar “kept him for the present a state-prisoner” at one point, considered deposing him “and find some less troublesome pageant to fill the throne”, was dissuaded by Ibrahim Adil Shah II, and in AH 1016 “made that monarch’s situation easier, and began to treat him with more respect”.
What happened in 1610 — the end of this reign and the accession of Burhan III — the archive has not yet read from a page it can quote, and the Great Houses show that gap rather than close it.