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Indian History Congress. Section IV. Mughal Period Section. (Including Early Maratha-Sikh History)

1939

The basic fact about every culture is the balance which it effects between the demands of the inner world of.lpirit and the outer world of nature of the reA Ad the.actual the eternal and the transient. [...] The impression which the study of the Mughul period produces on the mind is that of extraordinary exuberance of intense movement in the field of practical affairs of enormous fertility in the fields of art and of letters and of remarkable abundance of striking personalities which crowd upon the stage of history. [...] This tremendous release of the springs of our energy was the result of two factors the gradually rising potential of the ancient cultural impulse after the depression caused by the early conquests of the Turkish invaders and the impact of the forces originating in Central Asia. [...] Humayun the astronomer king whose devotion to the lore of the stars was the cause of his utimely death so much absorbed the Hindu atmosphere as to order the wearing of robes of different colours on different days of the week corresponding to the colour of the presiing planet of the day. [...] At Bantam the prospect of the trade were unfavourable ' and even precarious ' owing to the oppostion of the Dutch and the reduction of the Agency at Bantam (in 1630-31) from the rank of a Presidency and Council to subordination to the President and Council at Surat.' Another stumbling block in the path of the East India Company was the commercial rivalry of and attacks by the Dutch' and the P
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Section IV. Mughul Period Section
882-1236 unknown view
Section V. Modern Period Section
1237-1630 unknown view
Supplement Exhibition Catalogue
1631-1696 unknown view

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