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Mediaeval India under Mohammedan Rule (A.D. 712 - 1764)

1903

Whilst overthrowing most of the ceremonial rules whether of Islam or of Hinduism and making almost all things lawful save excess ' he took ideas from learned Brahmans as well as Portuguese missionaries ; he adopted the worship of the sun as the symbol of the Creator and in gratitude for the blessings of light and fertilizing warmth ; and himself daily set the example of adoring Him the Timeles [...] The events of the thousand years of doomed Islam were related from a Shi'a point of view and to add to the cofusion the chronology was reckoned from the death instead of from the flight (Hijra) of the prophet. [...] He was the first Englishman ever received by the emperor of Hindustan as the official representative of the king of England and he obtained from the Great Moghul the first distinct acknowledgment of the rights of British commerce in India. [...] It deals almost exclusively with the court and the ambassador's audiences with the emperor and the political intrigues of the time but of the state of the country it reveals little. [...] jahangir especially piqued himself on his taste for art ; pictures and statues even of the Madonna adorned his palace and in the hall of audience were displayed pictures of ' the King of England the Queen the Lady Elizabeth the Countesse of Somerset and Salisbury and of a Citizen's wife of London ; below them another of Sir Thomas Smith Govenor of the East-India Companies When Roe showe
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Frontmatter
i-viii Stanley Lane-Poole view
Chapter XI Akbar’s Reforms the Devine Faith 1566-1605
179-197 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Chapter XII The Great Moghul and European Travellers 1605-1627
198-222 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Chapter XIII Shah-Jahan the Magnificent 1628-1658
223-243 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Chapter XIV The Puritan Emperor Aurangzib 1659-1680
244-258 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Chapter XV The Ruin of Aurangzib the Maratha War 1680-1707
259-277 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Chapter XVI The Fall of the Moghul Empire the Hindu Revival 1707-1764
278-288 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Mohammeden Dynasties
289-298 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Plates
299-308 Stanley Lane-Poole view
Index
309-324 Stanley Lane-Poole view

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