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===Ahom campaign===
[[File:Aurangzeb in old age 2.jpg|thumb|upright|Aurangzeb reciting the [[Quran]].]]
In 1660 [[Mir Jumla II]], the viceroy of Bengal, was ordered to recover the lost territories.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Sarkar |editor-first=Jadunath |editor-link=Jadunath Sarkar |year=1973 |orig-date=1948 |title=The History of Bengal |volume=II |location=Patna |publisher=Academica Asiatica |page=346 |oclc=924890 |quote=Mir Jumla was appointed governor of Bengal (June 1660) and ordered to punish the kings of Kuch Bihar and Assam.}}</ref>

The Mughals set out in November 1661. Within weeks they occupied the capital of Kuch Behar, which they annexed. Leaving a detachment to garrison it, the Mughal army began to retake their territories in Assam. Mir Jumla II advanced on Garhgaon, the capital of the [[Ahom kingdom]], and reached it on 17 March 1662. The ruler, Raja [[Sutamla]], had fled before his approach. The Mughals captured 82 elephants, 300,000 rupees in cash, 1000 ships, and 173 stores of rice.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Sarkar |editor-first=Jadunath |editor-link=Jadunath Sarkar |year=1973 |orig-date= 1948 |title=The History of Bengal |volume=II |location=Patna |publisher=Academica Asiatica |pages=346–347 |oclc=924890 |quote=[Mir Jumla] left Dacca on 1st November 1661 ... the Mughal army entered the capital of Kuch Bihar on 19th December ... The kingdom was annexed to the Mughal empire ... Mir Jumla set out for the conquest of Assam on 4th January, 1662 ... triumphantly marched into Garh-gaon the Ahom capital on 17th March. Raja Jayadhwaj ... had fled .. The spoils ... 82 elephants, 3 lakhs of rupees in cash, ... over a thousand bots, and 173 stores of paddy.}}</ref>

On his way back to [[Dacca]], in March 1663, Mir Jumla II died of natural causes.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Sarkar |editor-first=Jadunath |editor-link=Jadunath Sarkar |year=1973 |orig-date=1948 |title=The History of Bengal |volume=II |location=Patna |publisher=Academica Asiatica |page=350 |oclc=924890 |quote=[Mir Jumla] set out on his return on 10th January 1663, travelling by ''pālki'' owing to his illness, which daily increased. At Baritalā he embarked in a boat and glided down the river toward Dacca, dying on 31st March.}}</ref>

The battle of Saraighat was the last battle in the last major attempt by the Mughals to extend their empire into Assam. Though the Mughals managed to regain Guwahati briefly after a later Borphukan deserted it, the Ahoms wrested control in the [[battle of Itakhuli]] in 1682 and maintained it till the end of their rule.<ref>Sarkar, J. N. (1992), "Chapter VIII Assam-Mughal Relations", in Barpujari, H. K., The Comprehensive History of Assam 2, Guwahati: Assam Publication Board, pp. 148–256</ref>