The Muslim University Journal. July 1931

This is generally attrbuted to the removal of vegetation and change of climate but I have tried to show that the primary cause is not decrease of vegetation but the action of denuding agencies "8 MUSLIM UNIVERSITY JOURNAL and a chapter has been devoted to the examination of the possibilities of a change of climate. [...] The * Presidential Address delivered at the Urdu Section of the All-India Oriental Conference held at Patna on December 19; 1930.12 MUSLIM UNIVERSITY JOURNAL steady expansion of the Moghul empire and its extension under Akbar and his successors in the South made the idiom of the Capital the idiom of the Musalman kingdoms of the Deccan—nay their court-language. [...] And last but not least' in Bahadur Shah the last of the Moghul emperors the Muse found the fittest coposer of Delhi's mournful epitaph and the saddest singer of the fickleness of fate and the vicissitudes of fortune. [...] In spite of the close relations between the two countries. English literature cannot boast of any poem of Indian interest which has attained to the literary rank of the Lusiad of Camoens with its triumphant account of the discovery and conquest of India by Vasco da Gama; but there are several poems though of minor importance which must excite the curiosity of the literary student. [...] I am the batsman and the bat I am the bowler and the ball The umpire the pavilion-cat The roller pitch and stumps and all.