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History of Moahomedan Power in India

1908

During the ensuing century three more dynasties reigned in Dehly ; and the imbecility of the house of Lody enabled Babur at the head of twelve thousand men to subdue the empire in 1526 and to estalish the house of the Great Mogul a member of Which family still occupies the shadow of a throne that once belonged to one of the most powerful monarchies in the universe. [...] In the third volume instead of a recapitulation of the events of Europe I have added an abstract of the Portuguese annals in Asia from Faria-Souza as belonging to the period and the histories of the kingdoms with which the Europeans came in contact in the sixteenth century. [...] The Jam dynasty of Sind the Lunga family of Mooltan and the Clink race of Kashmeer has each its peculiar denomnation ; while the titles of Shurky and Poorby serve to mark the kings of joonpoor and Bengal. [...] The chief merits of a translator seem to me to consist in faithfully rendering the sentments of the author into the language of the translation free alike from the crudities of foreign idioms from the verbosity and terseness which belong to some tongues and from affectation. [...] The Raja of Lahore cedes territory to the Gukkurs to defend his territory from the invasions of the Afghans.
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Pages
684
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141764
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxviii unknown view
Life of the Author
xxxix-xlvi unknown view
The Author’s Preface
xlvii-lii unknown view
Introductory Chapter on the Hindoos
liii-lxxxi unknown view
Introduction
1-i unknown view
Chapter I
11-i unknown view
Chapter II
161-597 unknown view

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