Dara had retreated after the defeat from…
August 1659 CE
Dara had retreated after the defeat from Agra to Delhi and thence to Lahore.
His next destination was Multan and then to Thatta (Sindh).
From Sindh, he had crossed the Great Rann of Kutch and reached Kathiawar, where he had met Shah Nawaz Khan, the governor of the province of Gujarat who had opened the treasury to Dara and helped him to recruit a new army.
He then occupied Surat and advanced towards Ajmer.
Foiled in his hopes of persuading the fickle but powerful Rajput feudatory, Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar, to support his cause, the luckless Dara had decided to make a stand and fight Aurangzeb's relentless pursuers but on March 11, 1659, was once again comprehensively routed in the battle of Deorai (near Ajmer).
After this defeat he had fled to Sindh and sought refuge under Malik Jiwan, a Baluch chieftain whose life had on more than one occasion been saved by the Mughal prince from the wrath of Shah Jahan.
However, Malik had betrayed Dara and on June 10, 1659, turned him (and his second son Sipihr Shikoh) over to Aurangzeb's army.
Brought to Delhi, placed on a filthy elephant and paraded through the streets of the capital in chains, Dara's fate is decided by the political threat he poses as a prince popular with the common people—a convocation of nobles and clergy, called by Aurangzeb in response to the perceived danger of insurrection in Delhi, declares him a threat to the public peace and an apostate from Islam.
He is murdered on the night of August 30, 1659, by assassins.
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