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A'saf Abul Abul Fazl Afghans afterwards Agra Akber Ala ud ancient appear Arabs army Asiatic Researches attack Aurangzib authority Baber Balkh Behar Bengal Bijapur Brahmans Bramins brother Cabul called Camran capital century character chief Colebrooke conquest court death Deckan defeated Delhi desert dominions dynasty elephant emperor enemy expedition favour Ferishta Ganges Ghazni governor Greeks Guzerat Hindostan Hindu Hiouen Thsang horse Humayun India Indus inhabitants Jehangir Khafi Khan Khorasan Khusrou king king's kingdom land Mahmud Mahometan Malwa Marattas ment mentioned Mirza Moguls Mohammed mountains Mussulmans nations Nur Jehan occasion officers Panjab Persian person possession present prince probably province raja Rajputs reign religion Rig Veda river Sanscrit seems sent Shah Jehan Shahab ud Shir Shah siege Sivaji soon success Sultan Tamerlane temples territory throne tion took tract Transoxiana tribes troops vazir Vedas village whole
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Page 68 - The Village Communities are little Republics, having nearly everything they can want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindoo, Patan, Mogul, Mahratta, Sikh, English, are all masters in turn; but the Village Communities remain the same.
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Page 69 - They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds revolution; but the village community remains the same. This union of the village communities, each one forming a separate little state in itself, has, I conceive contributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the...
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Page 616 - Maratha thinks of nothing but the result, and cares little for the means, if he can attain his object. For this purpose he will strain his wits, renounce his pleasures, and hazard his person ; but he has not a conception of sacrificing his life, or even his interest, for a point of honour.
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Page 161 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 600 - Khafi Khan, the best historian of those times, gives his opinion that although Akbar was pre-eminent as a conqueror and a lawgiver, yet for the order and arrangement of his territory and finances and the good administration of every department of the state, no prince ever reigned in India that could be compared to Shah Jahan.
Page 647 - Though the son of a powerful chief, he had begun life as a during and artful captain of banditti, had ripened into a skilful general and an able statesman, and left a character which has never since been equalled or approached by any of his countrymen.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The History of India: The Hindú and Mahometan Periods |
| Author | Mountstuart Elphinstone |
| Editor | Edward Byles Cowell |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1866 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 790 pages |
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