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The Conquerors Warriors & Statesmen of India: An Historical Narrative of the Principal Events from the Invasion of Mahmoud of Ghizni to that of Nader Shah

1866

The fierce contests and alternate triumphs of Chosroe the great Shah of Persia and Heraclius the chivalrous Emperor of the East during a period of nearly twenty years had shattered the monarchies and institutions of Asia ' and suffered the hostile creeds of Sabians Magians and Jews the devilish doctrines of Manes 2 and Mazdak 8 and the gross idolatry of even the Christians themselves to s [...] The former laid the foundation of the centralisation that has imparted such vitality to the faith of Christ ; whilst the latter marks the date of the mighty revolution that transformed a race of wandering shepherds into the founders of mighty empires and gave new aspirations of a future state to more than a fourth of the inhabitants of the globe. [...] From time immemorial the game of the four angas9 or chess appears to have solaced the leisure hours of the princes and sages of Hindostan ; and hundreds of years before the fierce chaunts of the worshippers of Odin prpitiated the virgins of the Valhalla ; before Deborah and Barak sang the triumph of Israel ; or Pythagoras dicovered the divisions of the musical ratio. [...] Buddha was the apostle of a new faith ; he broke with the traditional formalities of the past and prclaimed for the first time in spite of castes and creeds the equality of rich and poor the foolish and the wise the twice-born and the outcast : be abolished all caste and elevated the character of saints and prophets above that of the priestly tribe and substituted for an herditary pri [...] BOOK IN all ages of history the commerce of India has e7. riched the nations and the kings of the earth : " 1 and from the days of Moses to our own the shawls of Casmere the silks of Delhi and the gold and ivory of Malabar have adorned the palaces and decked the favourites of kings and filled the coffers of princely traders.
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Frontmatter
i-xi Edward Sullivan view
Errata
xii-xii Edward Sullivan view
Chapter I. Introductory
1-19 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. II
20-26 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. III. A.D. 1000-1023
27-45 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. IV. A.D. 1024
46-58 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. V. A.D. 1026-1030
59-66 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. VI. A.D. 1030-1040
67-74 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. VII. A.D. 1044-1186
75-84 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. VIII. A.D. 1191-1193
85-97 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. IX. A.D. 1194-1235
98-109 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. X. A.D. 1236-1286
110-120 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XI. A.D. 1287-1316
121-138 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XII. A.D. 1321-1387
139-148 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XIII
149-166 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XIV. A.D. 1347-1422
167-183 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XV. A.D. 1422-1518
184-200 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XVI. Recapitulatory
201-208 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XVII
209-245 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XVIII. A.D. 1530-1555
246-257 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XIX. A.D. 1554-1578
258-275 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XX
276-299 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXI
300-313 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXII
314-330 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXIII
331-344 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXIV
345-366 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXV
367-391 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXVI
392-411 Edward Sullivan view
Chap. XXVII
412-432 Edward Sullivan view
Map
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