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Rulers of India Akbar and the Rise of the Mughal Empire

1903

When at the end of that period his empire fell as had fallen the kingdoms of his Afghan predecessors and from the same cause the absence of any roots in the soil the result of a single defeat in the field he lost at one blow all that %bar had gained south of the Indus. [...] In the first of the two-thirds I have narrated from the pages and on the authority of contemporary Muhammadan historians the poltical events of the reign. [...] CHAPTER II THE FATLY AND EARLY DAYS OF BABAII ON the 9th of April i336 there was born to the chief of the Lirbas a tribe of the purest 11lughal origin at Shehr-Sebz thirty miles to the north of Samarkand a son the eldest of his family. [...] lie established his authority in Mughalistan or the country between the Tibet mpuntains the Indus and Mekran to the south and Siberia to the north ; in Kipchak the country lying north of the lowerTHE FAMILY OF BA BAR 13 course of the Jaxartes the sea of Aral and the Caspian including the rich lands 'on the Don and \Volga and part of those on the Euxine ; he coquered India and forced t [...] The points upon which he48 THE EMPEROR AKBAR had specially laid stress were : the conscientious dicharge of duties to God and man ; the honest and assiduouS administration of justice ; the seasoning of punishment to the guilty with the extension of tendeness and mercy to he ignorant and penitent with protection to the poor and defenceless ; he besought Hurnay6n moreover to deal kindly and
history
Pages
209
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146399
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-4 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter I. The Argument
5-11 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter II. The Family and Early Days of Babar
12-16 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter III. Bábar Conquers Kábul
17-25 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter IV. Bábar’s Invasions of India
26-34 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter V. The Position of Bábar in Hindustán
35-49 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter VI. Humáyún and the Early Days of Akbar
50-59 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter VII. Humáyún Invades India. His Death
60-64 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter VIII. Akbar’s Fight for his Father’s Throne
65-71 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter IX. General Condition of India in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century
72-80 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter X. The Tutelage under Bairám Khán
81-90 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter XI. Chronicle of the Reign
91-145 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Chapter XII. The Principles and Internal Administration of Akbar
146-200 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Index
201-204 William Hunter, G. B. Malleson view
Rulers of India
i-iv W.W. Hunter view

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